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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Literary Elements Terminology

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A difficult decision, puzzle, obstacle, or situation for the characters in the story.

a)

Solution

b)

Overcoming Obstacles

c)

Author's Point-of-View

d)

Problem

2.

How characters in the story solve, fix, or resolve the problem in the story.

a)

Solution

b)

Overcoming Obstacles

c)

Author's Point-of-View

d)

Problem

3.

One can work through a challenge in order to achieve a goal. The secret is to realize that only you are responsible for what you do with anything.

a)

Solution

b)

Overcoming Obstacles

c)

Author's Point-of-View

d)

Problem

4.

How author's feels about the topic. (their opinions and beliefs)

a)

Solution

b)

Overcoming Obstacles

c)

Authors Point-of-View

d)

Problem

5.

Giving human qualities to animals or objects.

a)

Figurative Language

b)

Personification

c)

Illustration

d)

Dialect

6.

When one describes something by comparing it to something else; words or phrases that are used

a)

Figurative Language

b)

Personification

c)

Illustration

d)

Dialect

7.

A decoration, interpretation, or visual explanation of text, concept or process interspersed throughout text that binds a book's theme and purpose together.

a)

Figurative Language

b)

Personification

c)

Illustration

d)

Dialect

8.

A way of speaking which is characteristic of a certain place or group of people.

a)

Figurative Language

b)

Personification

c)

Illustration

d)

Dialect

9.

The mood implied by the author's word choice.

a)

Tone

b)

Motif

c)

Theme

d)

Explanation

10.

Reinforces the Theme through repetition of a certain narrative element.

a)

Tone

b)

Motif

c)

Theme

d)

Explanation

11.

A statement or account that makes something clear.

a)

Tone

b)

Motif

c)

Theme

d)

Explanation

12.

The main or underlying message the author is trying to convey (to communicate) through the story.

a)

Tone

b)

Motif

c)

Theme

d)

Explanation

13.

Time: When it is happening in the story.

Place: Where characters are located in a story.

a)

Segregation

b)

Racism

c)

Setting

d)

Make a Connection

14.

Prejudice or discrimination directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.

a)

Segregation

b)

Racism

c)

Setting

d)

Make a Connection

15.

Allows readers to better relate and understand ways in which reading connects.

a)

Segregation

b)

Racism

c)

Setting

d)

Make a Connection

16.

The act of setting someone or something apart from other people or things; being set apart.

a)

Segregation

b)

Racism

c)

Setting

d)

Make a Connection

17.

A decoration, interpretation, or visual explanation of text, concept or process interspersed throughout text that binds a book's theme and purpose together.

a)

Figurative Language

b)

Illustration

c)

Explanation

d)

Theme