WorksheetsLiterary terms final- 7A Caleb and Hayden!
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
Story told using I or we
1st person
3rd person
3rd person limited
2nd person
Story told using you
1st person
3rd person
2nd person
3rd person omniscient
Story told using he she and they
2nd person
3rd person
1st person
3rd person omniscient
the narrator's position
1st person
3rd person
3rd person limited
point of view
method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters in the story
Omniscient
3rd person limited
eye witness account
Genre
type of art, literature or music characterized by a specific form, content or style
Fiction
genre
nonfiction
realistic fiction
Stories that are not true
genre
fiction
non-fiction
realistic fiction
Stories that are true
non-fiction
fiction
realistic fiction
genre
A short story with animals and is conveying a moral
Myth
fairy tale
Fable
tall tale
A traditional story that explains a social or natural Phenomenon
Myth
Fable
fairy tale
tall tale
A children's story abut magical and imaginary beings and lands
Fable
fairy tale
myth
tall tale
A story with unbelievable elements that are based on actual events
fable
myth
tall tale
fairy tale
fiction based off imagined future scientific or technological advances
Historical fiction
biography
autobiography
science fiction
Fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances
science fiction
Historical fiction
biography
autobiography
a story set in the past and pays attention to the manners, social conditions and other details of the period
Historical fiction
science fiction
biography
autobiography
a account of someones life written by someone else
science fiction
biography
historical fiction
autobiography
an account of a person's life written by that person
historical fiction
autobiography
biography
science fiction
genre that is an imaginative and fanciful work, dealing with supernatural or unnatural events or characters
legend
fantasy
dystopian fiction
Utopian fiction
a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated
legend
fantasy
dystopian fiction
Utopian fiction
fictional stories in a dark nightmare world world
Utopian fiction
Dystopian fiction
fantasy
legend
stories set in a perfect world
Utopian fiction
dystopian fiction
fantasy
legend
a fully developed story but shorter in length
A short story
novel
memior
anecdote
a fiction story that is book length
memior
novel
short story
anecdote
A true story from credible sources
memoir
anecdote
short story
novel
A funny story from someones life
short story
anecdote
novel
memoir
drama based on human suffering, downfall
poetry
tragedy
narration
limerick
The person telling the story.
narration
poetry
limerick
tragedy
literary work in which a special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinct style and rhythm
narration
poetry
limerick
tragedy
a humorous verse of three long lines and two short lines with the rhyme scheme aabba
limerick
poetry
tragedy
narration
poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
drama
free verse
dramatic
prose
written or spoken language in ordinary form, without metrical structure
novel
prose
first person
memoir
composition in verse or prose presenting a story in pantomime or dialogue performed in front of an audience
prose
limerick
drama
novel
a drama written in verse
dramatic poetry
free verse
limerik
novel
form of poetry that tells a story
dramatic poetry
haiku
stanza
Narrative poetry
poem of 17 syllables in three lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables, traditionally evoking images of the natural world
Limerick
stanza
haiku
line
a unit of language into which a poem or play is divided
Line
Stanza
Haiku
Rhyme
a group of lines forming the basic metrical unit in a poem
Stanza
Line
Haiku
Rhyme
correspondence of sounds between words or the endings of words, especially when there are used at the ends of lines in poetry
Line
Stanza
Rhyme
Haiku
the arrangement of rhymes in a poem or stanza
Rhyming pattern
Rhyme
Haiku
Lines
a warning in indication of a future event
Foreshadowing
Plot
Suspense
exposition
a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen
exposition
foreshadowing
suspense
plot
the events that make up a story or the main part of a story
Suspense
plot
Foreshadowing
exposition
part of the story that introduces the characters and the setting
Plot
Foreshadowing
Exposition
Suspense
the literal meaning of a word
Denotation
Connotation
Haiku
Line
the feeling a word invokes
Denotation
Haiku
Connotation
Line
a scene that takes place before the story begins
Suspense
Foreshadowing
Flashback
Plot
a series of events that create suspense, interest, and tension in a narrative
Climax
Rising action
Falling action
Resolution
the highest point of tension in a story
Resolution
Climax
Rising action
Falling action
the action has passed the climax and is now “winding down”
Climax
Resoulution
Falling action
Rising action
part of the story’s plot where the problem of the story is worked out
Climax
Falling action
Resolution
Rising action
