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Literary Terms and Concepts (G9)

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are "Literary Devices"?

a)

insight (sự khai sáng) into life revealed through literary work

b)

the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work

c)

struggles between opposing forces (thế lực đối lập)

d)

writers’ tools in their works

2.

When we talk about the time, and place of the action. What story element are we looking for?

a)

Setting

b)

Plot

c)

Theme

d)

Charaters

3.

What are the synonyms of "protagonist" and "antagonist"?

a)

weal and woe

b)

hero and villain

c)

sugar and salt

d)

fiction and nonfiction

4.

Which elements are essential for building a story?

a)

Theme, Setting, Plot, Characters, Conflicts

b)

Setting, Plot, Characters, Conflicts

c)

Theme, Setting, Plot, Conflicts

d)

Theme, Setting, Characters, Conflicts

5.

What does "Plot" tell us?

a)

main events with interrelated sequence

b)

writers' tools in their works

c)

a central message ot insight into life releaved through literary work.

6.

Literary Types or Forms are _________________.

a)

categories of literary composition

b)

central messages

c)

any kinds of written words

d)

writers' tools in their works

7.

Name this term: an insight about life that is revealed in a literary work

a)

archetype

b)

diction

c)

theme

d)

plot

8.

Diction is the literary term that means

a)

The connections we have with words

b)

An author's choice of words

c)

The definition of words

d)

The common way of speaking with friends

9.

What information is most likely to be included in the exposition?

a)

Where the story takes place

b)

Who the protagonist encounters on their journey

c)

How the conflict changes the protagonist

d)

What happens to the protagonist at the end

10.

The main character in story who wants to reach a goal.

a)

protagonist

b)

antagonist

11.
Which part of the plot is
the most intense?
a)
falling action
b)
exposition
c)
exposition
d)
climax
12.
Mara was feeling apprehensive about the camping trip. She had never slept in a tent before. What if there were bears or mountain lions?

What does the word "apprehensive" mean?
 
a)
worried
b)
angry
c)
excited
d)
in pain
13.
Grandpa was in a jovial mood, making jokes and laughing at everything. 
What does the word "jovial" mean? 
a)
crazy
b)
happy
c)
irritable
d)
angry
14.
We left the campsite after spending a wretched night in torrential rain with a ripped tent. 
What does the word "wretched" mean? 
a)
miserable
b)
wonderful
c)
comfortable
d)
angry
15.

What type of context clue that provides readers with varying examples to allow them to fully examine the unfamiliar words?

a)

Explanation or Example Clue

b)

Antonym or Contrast Clue

c)

Definition or Statement Clue

d)

Synonym or Restatement Cue

16.

What type of context clue that provides the meaning of unfamiliar words that can be inferred or guessed from the description of the situation?

a)

Cause-and-Effect or Reason-Result Clue

b)

Explanation or Example Clue

c)

Inference or General Text Clue

d)

Definition or Statement Clue

17.

What type of context clue that provides the synonyms of words to give the meaning of unfamiliar words?

a)

Antonym or Contrast Clue

b)

Inference or General Text Clue

c)

Definition or Statement Clue

d)

Synonym or Comparison Clue

18.

As a country in the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Philippines always experiences different natural calamities such as typhoons, earthquakes, and tsunamis. What type of context clue is used in the sentence?

a)

Synonym or Comparison Clue

b)

Cause-and-Effect or Reason-Result Clue

c)

Antonym or Contrast Clue

d)

Example Clue

19.

That movie was really humorous. I laughed so hard I was almost crying. What does humorous probably mean which has positive connotation?

a)

boring

b)

scary

c)

funny

d)

sad

20.
At the restaurant we were offered a variety of beverages, like milk and ice tea.
a)
bread
b)
silverware
c)
drinks
d)
milk
21.
When you are reading and come to an unknown word, what should you do first?
a)
Look for clues in the sentence
b)
Ask your teacher
c)
Look it up in the dictionary
d)
Skip it
22.
What do you call a word that has the opposite meaning of another word? 
a)
Explanation
b)
Synonym
c)
Antonym
d)
Homonym
23.

This is a sub-genre of science fiction; it's what is left after the world falls apart or an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic.

a)

realistic fiction

b)

utopian

c)

dystopian

d)

informational

24.

stories that blend fact and fiction with futuristic technology

a)

fantasy

b)

science fiction

c)

biography

d)

realistic fiction

25.

stories that contain elements that can not be real; may include magical powers or talking animals; usually involved a struggle between good and evil

a)

science fiction

b)

fantasy

c)

realistic fiction

d)

poetry

26.

the story of a real person's life written by someone else

a)

biography

b)

autobiography

c)

folklore

d)

fantasy

27.

the story of a real person's life written by that person

a)

autobiography

b)

informational

c)

biography

d)

mystery

28.

Crackback, a book about a high school football team, belongs to which genre?

a)

science fiction

b)

fantasy

c)

realistic fiction

d)

poetry