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Literary terms final- 7A Caleb and Hayden!

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Story told using I or we

a)

1st person

b)

3rd person

c)

3rd person limited

d)

2nd person

2.

Story told using you

a)

1st person

b)

3rd person

c)

2nd person

d)

3rd person omniscient

3.

Story told using he she and they

a)

2nd person

b)

3rd person

c)

1st person

d)

3rd person omniscient

4.

the narrator's position

a)

1st person

b)

3rd person

c)

3rd person limited

d)

point of view

5.

method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters in the story

a)

Omniscient

b)

3rd person limited

c)

eye witness account

d)

Genre

6.

type of art, literature or music characterized by a specific form, content or style

a)

Fiction

b)

genre

c)

nonfiction

d)

realistic fiction

7.

Stories that are not true

a)

genre

b)

fiction

c)

non-fiction

d)

realistic fiction

8.

Stories that are true

a)

non-fiction

b)

fiction

c)

realistic fiction

d)

genre

9.

A short story with animals and is conveying a moral

a)

Myth

b)

fairy tale

c)

Fable

d)

tall tale

10.

A traditional story that explains a social or natural Phenomenon

a)

Myth

b)

Fable

c)

fairy tale

d)

tall tale

11.

A children's story abut magical and imaginary beings and lands

a)

Fable

b)

fairy tale

c)

myth

d)

tall tale

12.

A story with unbelievable elements that are based on actual events

a)

fable

b)

myth

c)

tall tale

d)

fairy tale

13.

fiction based off imagined future scientific or technological advances

a)

Historical fiction

b)

biography

c)

autobiography

d)

science fiction

14.

Fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances

a)

science fiction

b)

Historical fiction

c)

biography

d)

autobiography

15.

a story set in the past and pays attention to the manners, social conditions and other details of the period

a)

Historical fiction

b)

science fiction

c)

biography

d)

autobiography

16.

a account of someones life written by someone else

a)

science fiction

b)

biography

c)

historical fiction

d)

autobiography

17.

an account of a person's life written by that person

a)

historical fiction

b)

autobiography

c)

biography

d)

science fiction

18.

genre that is an imaginative and fanciful work, dealing with supernatural or unnatural events or characters

a)

legend

b)

fantasy

c)

dystopian fiction

d)

Utopian fiction

19.

a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated

a)

legend

b)

fantasy

c)

dystopian fiction

d)

Utopian fiction

20.

fictional stories in a dark nightmare world world

a)

Utopian fiction

b)

Dystopian fiction

c)

fantasy

d)

legend

21.

stories set in a perfect world

a)

Utopian fiction

b)

dystopian fiction

c)

fantasy

d)

legend

22.

a fully developed story but shorter in length

a)

A short story

b)

novel

c)

memior

d)

anecdote

23.

a fiction story that is book length

a)

memior

b)

novel

c)

short story

d)

anecdote

24.

A true story from credible sources

a)

memoir

b)

anecdote

c)

short story

d)

novel

25.

A funny story from someones life

a)

short story

b)

anecdote

c)

novel

d)

memoir

26.

drama based on human suffering, downfall

a)

poetry

b)

tragedy

c)

narration

d)

limerick

27.

The person telling the story.

a)

narration

b)

poetry

c)

limerick

d)

tragedy

28.

literary work in which a special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinct style and rhythm

a)

narration

b)

poetry

c)

limerick

d)

tragedy

29.

a humorous verse of three long lines and two short lines with the rhyme scheme aabba

a)

limerick

b)

poetry

c)

tragedy

d)

narration

30.

poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter

a)

drama

b)

free verse

c)

dramatic

d)

prose

31.

written or spoken language in ordinary form, without metrical structure

a)

novel

b)

prose

c)

first person

d)

memoir

32.

composition in verse or prose presenting a story in pantomime or dialogue performed in front of an audience

a)

prose

b)

limerick

c)

drama

d)

novel

33.

a drama written in verse

a)

dramatic poetry

b)

free verse

c)

limerik

d)

novel

34.

form of poetry that tells a story

a)

dramatic poetry

b)

haiku

c)

stanza

d)

Narrative poetry

35.

poem of 17 syllables in three lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables, traditionally evoking images of the natural world

a)

Limerick

b)

stanza

c)

haiku

d)

line

36.

a unit of language into which a poem or play is divided

a)

Line

b)

Stanza

c)

Haiku

d)

Rhyme

37.

a group of lines forming the basic metrical unit in a poem

a)

Stanza

b)

Line

c)

Haiku

d)

Rhyme

38.

correspondence of sounds between words or the endings of words, especially when there are used at the ends of lines in poetry

a)

Line

b)

Stanza

c)

Rhyme

d)

Haiku

39.

the arrangement of rhymes in a poem or stanza

a)

Rhyming pattern

b)

Rhyme

c)

Haiku

d)

Lines

40.

a warning in indication of a future event

a)

Foreshadowing

b)

Plot

c)

Suspense

d)

exposition

41.

a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen

a)

exposition

b)

foreshadowing

c)

suspense

d)

plot

42.

the events that make up a story or the main part of a story

a)

Suspense

b)

plot

c)

Foreshadowing

d)

exposition

43.

part of the story that introduces the characters and the setting

a)

Plot

b)

Foreshadowing

c)

Exposition

d)

Suspense

44.

the literal meaning of a word

a)

Denotation

b)

Connotation

c)

Haiku

d)

Line

45.

the feeling a word invokes

a)

Denotation

b)

Haiku

c)

Connotation

d)

Line

46.

a scene that takes place before the story begins

a)

Suspense

b)

Foreshadowing

c)

Flashback

d)

Plot

47.

a series of events that create suspense, interest, and tension in a narrative

a)

Climax

b)

Rising action

c)

Falling action

d)

Resolution

48.

the highest point of tension in a story

a)

Resolution

b)

Climax

c)

Rising action

d)

Falling action

49.

the action has passed the climax and is now “winding down”

a)

Climax

b)

Resoulution

c)

Falling action

d)

Rising action

50.

part of the story’s plot where the problem of the story is worked out

a)

Climax

b)

Falling action

c)

Resolution

d)

Rising action