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WorksheetsLiterary Terms Game
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 11mins
In this Literary Terms game, you will be asked 15 questions. For each question, you'll be given 3-4 options, but only 1 will be the correct answer. Good luck!
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What is a Bildungsroman?
A story about tragedy.
A coming of age story.
A coming of death story.
A story about people of different ages.
The writer's attitude toward their literary work is the
Tone
Motif
Syntax
An unreliable narrator is
A narrator that is a child.
A narrator that is lazy.
A narrator that is a ghost.
A narrator that isn't trustworthy.
The structure of a sentence is
Syntax
Motif
Juxtaposition
Diction
The word choice of an author is
Diction
Syntax
Imagery
Descriptive words that create an image in the reader’s mind is
Detail
An image
Imagery
Symbol
In literary work, detail is
Descriptive information that creates an image
Descriptive information that supports an idea
The repetition of a certain element in a story
The mood of the literary work
An object or character that represents a bigger idea is a(n)
Symbol
Vignette
Unreliable narrator
What is Motif?
A brief piece of writing
A novel written in 1959
A popular writer
The repetition of a certain element in a story
Placing two elements together to compare or contrast them is
Vignette
Alliteration
Juxtaposition
Adage
"The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros is an example of what?
A vignette
A bildungsroman
An unreliable narrator
“Beyond the dusty brown yard, in front of the sorry gray house, rose suddenly and shockingly a dazzling strip of bright blossoms, clumped together in enormous mounds, warm and passionate and sun-golden" (Collier, 3). This text is an example of
Detail
Imagery
Diction
Motif
“Then we check out that we on Fifth Avenue and
everybody dressed up in stockings. One lady in a fur coat, hot as it is. White folks crazy" (Bambara, 2). What is this an example of?
Motif
Bildungsroman
Juxtaposition
Detail
The word small in "The Birthday Party" by Katherine Brush is an example of
Motif
Tone
Vignette
Syntax
In The House on Mango Street, the Monkey Garden is a(n) _____ of Esperanza losing her innocence.
Motif
Symbol
Imagery
Syntax
