WorksheetsFiction Academic Words
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 26mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.
a)
character
b)
conflict
c)
protagonist
d)
antagonist
2.
A serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one.
a)
character
b)
protagonist
c)
antagonist
d)
conflict
3.
A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.
a)
bad guy
b)
protagonist
c)
antagonist
d)
conflict
4.
A literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions. The atmosphere.
a)
mood
b)
tone
c)
plot
d)
exposition
5.
§An attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. It is generally conveyed through the choice of words or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject. It can be formal, informal, serious, comic, sarcastic, sad, and cheerful or it may be any other existing attitudes.
a)
mood
b)
tone
c)
plot
d)
rising action
6.
The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work; a story line. The causal sequence of events, the "why" for the things that happen in the story. The way in which the story elements are arranged.
a)
exposition
b)
climax
c)
resolution
d)
plot
7.
One of the seven elements that construct a plot. The start, where the characters and setting are established . The conflict or main problem is introduced.
a)
exposition
b)
climax
c)
resolution
d)
plot
8.
This element of plot includes all decisions, characters' flaws and background circumstances that together create turns and twists leading to a climax.
a)
exposition
b)
rising action
c)
climax
d)
falling action
9.
The highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something; culmination. A decisive moment or a turning point.
a)
exposition
b)
rising action
c)
climax
d)
falling action
10.
Element of plot in which the conflict has been resolved. The climax has been reached ; compare to rising action.
a)
exposition
b)
rising action
c)
climax
d)
falling action
11.
The final outcome of the story, generally occurring after the climax of the plot. Often it's where all the secrets (if there are any) are revealed and loose ends are tied up.
a)
exposition
b)
climax
c)
resolution
d)
plot
12.
Depicts the occurrence of specific events to the reader, which have taken place before the present time (in the past).
a)
theme
b)
mood
c)
flashback
d)
foreshadowing
13.
Give the reader a hint of something that is going to happen without revealing the story or spoiling the suspense. Used to suggest an upcoming (future) outcome to the story.
a)
flashback
b)
foreshadowing
c)
theme
d)
mood
14.
Words or phrases that appeal to the senses (sight, smell, touch, audio, visual, etc) and help to create a vivid description for the reader
a)
flashback
b)
foreshadowing
c)
imagery
d)
theme
15.
Refers to playing around with words such that the meaning implied by a sentence or word is actually different from the literal meaning.
Ex: Nothing is written in stone (written on a piece of stone)
Ex: Nothing is written in stone (written on a piece of stone)
a)
theme
b)
imagery
c)
irony
d)
symbolism
16.
Using an object or action to mean something more than its literal meaning.
Ex: A bald eagle represents freedom
Ex: A bald eagle represents freedom
a)
theme
b)
imagery
c)
irony
d)
symbolism
17.
Attaching human traits and characteristics with inanimate objects, phenomena and animals.
a)
personification
b)
imagery
c)
irony
d)
theme
18.
A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally.
Ex: The queen had a stone-cold heart.
Ex: The queen had a stone-cold heart.
a)
onomatopoeia
b)
alliteration
c)
metaphor
d)
hyperbole
19.
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
a)
metaphor
b)
alliteration
c)
hyperbole
d)
idiom
20.
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
a)
metaphor
b)
alliteration
c)
onomatopoeia
d)
hyperbole
21.
Words that imitate (copy) sounds
a)
metaphor
b)
alliteration
c)
hyperbole
d)
onomatopoeia
22.
Word combinations (Phrases) that have different meaning than the literal meanings of each word.
Ex: "Pulling my leg" or "Butterflies in my stomach)
Ex: "Pulling my leg" or "Butterflies in my stomach)
a)
idiom
b)
irony
c)
metaphor
d)
simile
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