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WorksheetsLiterary Term Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 3600secs
What is the difference between tone and mood?
The way Taylor Swift told Kanye to get out of her face...OH MAN!
Tone is the author's attitude toward a subject... Mood is how we are made to feel as readers, or the emotion evoked by the author.
Tone is the way you talk like "Sit down! ...you can tell I'm in a mood
Cause baby now we got bad blood
You know it used to be mad love
So take a look at what you've done
'Cause baby now we got bad blood
Explicit is:
When the answer is obvious in the text
When the answer isn't in the text at all
When the answer is implied in the text
When the narrator is in first person
Implicit is:
When the narrator is in first person
When the answer isn't in the text at all
When the answer is hidden in the text
When the answer is obvious in the text
The wind whispered through the dark and gloomy forest. What is being personified?
The forest
The wind
A person whispering
Travis began the school year the same as always. He never studied or completed his homework. Each report card showed the same poor grades. Although his parents encouraged him, by the end of the year, he was still doing poorly.
What type of character is he?
dynamic character
static character
Even though she loved to dance, Shannon was nervous about joining the dance team. She tried out and made it, but never said a word to anyone. At each dance practice, Shannon got a little more comfortable with her team. By the end of the season, not only did she make friends, but she even taught the team a few dance moves.
What type of character is she?
dynamic character
static character
A well developed, complex character is
round
flat
static
dynamic
What is a protagonist?
The villain of a story
The main character or hero in a story
To put off doing what you should be doing for later
The most exciting point in a story
What is an antagonist?
The love interest of the main character in a story
The hero or good guy in a story
The organization of the story in a work of literature
The person or idea that the protagonist struggles against in a story
what is a metaphor
Is when someone compares you to something without saying "like" or "as".
When you use "like" or "as" to compare two things.
The naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (such as buzz, hiss)
Dialogue is
how someone sees something
when two characters behave as human
two characters talking
I?
Characterization is the development of characters in a story. The author uses the mnemonic: STEAL. What does STEAL stand for?
Speech, Thoughts, Effect on others, Actions, and Looks
Statements, Time, Effort, Actions, and Love
Solitude, Thoughts, Enthusiasm, Actions, and Loss
What does the literary term 'point of view' mean?
Using your finger to get someone's attention.
The narrator's position in relationship to the story being told. ex. This story is told from the child's point of view. First, second, and third person point of view.
A phrase used to make a comparison.
