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Literature Test Review

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The part of a story where we know the outcome of the climax:

a)

Inciting incident

b)

Falling action

c)

Exposition

d)

Resolution

2.

The part of the story where most of the events take place:

a)

Rising action

b)

Inciting incident

c)

Exposition

d)

Climax

3.

This plays an important role in a story; it can establish mood, reveal characters and conflict, and give clues to the theme. It’s more than where and when a story takes place:

a)

Inciting incident

b)

Setting

c)

Resolution

d)

Meter

4.

Descriptive details that appeal to the senses of sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste, or to internal feelings:

a)

Figurative language

b)

Euphemism

c)

Irony

d)

Sensory details

5.

Giving human traits (qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics) to non-living objects (things,colors, qualities, or ideas):

a)

Idiom

b)

Alliteration

c)

Personification

d)

Imagery

6.

Use of words that sound like what they describe:

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Idiom

d)

Onomatopoeia

7.

Which word has a more positive connotation?

a)

Mean

b)

Strict

8.

What is the theme of a story?

a)

The main lesson that an author wants the reader to learn.

b)

The mood or feeling you get from reading the story.

c)

The author's opinion.

d)

The author's life history.

9.

“A narrow wind complains all day how someone treated him.” - Emily Dickinson. This is an example of a(n)

a)

metaphor

b)

hyperbole

c)

personification

d)

alliteration

10.

"Men's words are bullets, that their enemies take up and make use of against them." -George Savile. This is an example of a(n)

a)

imagery

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

metaphor

11.

What is the type of figurative language in which multiple words in a sentence start with the same beginning letter sound?

a)

Alliteration

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Times New Roman

d)

Metaphor

12.

What is the moment that kicks off the rising action in a plot?

a)

Cliff Hanger

b)

Climax

c)

Inciting incident

d)

Plot

13.

Which example is a simile?

a)

Love is a battlefield.

b)

Life is like a box of chocolates.

c)

I like pizza.

d)

Cancer is bad.

14.

What is the word for the beginning of a story? The part that sets the scene?

a)

Inciting Incident

b)

Exposition

c)

Plot

d)

Wrap Up

15.

What is the conflict of a story?

a)

Where it takes place.

b)

The main problem that the characters have to solve.

c)

The characters.

d)

The main lesson you're supposed to learn.