WorksheetsLong Literary Terms
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 26mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The method of narration/vantage point from which a story is told. (first person, third person, limited, omniscient)
a)
Point of View
b)
Figurative Language
c)
Metaphor
d)
Alliteration
2.
Generally provides the time and place of a specific scene or chapter, the entire story, a play or a narrative poem.
a)
Setting
b)
Conflict
c)
Motif
d)
Dialect
3.
Refers to a person or an animal in a story, play or other literary work.
a)
Character
b)
Imagery
c)
Connotation
d)
Simile
4.
The general idea or insight about life that a work of literature reveals.
a)
Theme
b)
Flashback
c)
Setting
d)
Tone
5.
An interruption in the present action of a plot to show events that happen at an earlier time.
a)
Flashback
b)
Setting
c)
Irony
d)
Allusion
6.
An imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be the other thing.
a)
Metaphor
b)
Mood
c)
Hyperbole
d)
Point of View
7.
Repetition of consonant sounds generally at the beginning of words, or, within neighboring words in a sentence.
a)
Alliteration
b)
Dramatic Irony
c)
Literary Elements
d)
Soliloquy
8.
A conversation between two or more characters.
a)
Dialogue
b)
Plot
c)
Setting
d)
Idiom
9.
Provides a recurrent feeling, image, message or criterion throughout a piece of literature.
a)
Motif
b)
Dialect
c)
Theme
d)
Point of View
10.
When a word or phrase of a line is repeated within the text; makes the reader consciously aware of a point being made by the author or character.
a)
Repetition
b)
Symbol/Symbolism
c)
Imagery
d)
Alliteration
11.
The attitude a writer/author takes towards his or her subject, characters, and audience.
a)
Tone
b)
Simile
c)
Motif
d)
Dialogue
12.
When an actor speaks their thoughts out loud to the audience; used to help the audience understand what an actor is thinking.
a)
Soliloquy
b)
Repetition
c)
Theme
d)
Metaphor
13.
Changes as a result of the events of a story.
a)
dynamic character
b)
conflict
c)
figurative language
d)
metaphor
14.
The way a writer reveals the personality of a character.
a)
characterization
b)
allusion
c)
irony
d)
dialect
15.
A struggle between opposing characters or opposing forces.
a)
conflict
b)
point of view
c)
motif
d)
tone
16.
An expression peculiar to a particular language that means something different from the literal meaning of words.
a)
idiom
b)
irony
c)
setting
d)
flashback
17.
The contrast between expectations and reality.
a)
irony
b)
alliteration
c)
connotation
d)
soliloguy
18.
A reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, the arts, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports or science.
a)
allusion
b)
irony
c)
theme
d)
point of view
19.
A meaning, association, or emotion suggested by a word, in addition to its dictionary definition, or denotation.
a)
connotation
b)
motif
c)
characterization
d)
alliteration
20.
the way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain geographical area or a certain group of people.
a)
dialect
b)
resolution
c)
tone
d)
characterization
21.
Struggle within a character's own mind.
a)
internal conflict
b)
static character
c)
metaphor
d)
allusion
22.
The sequence of events that happen in a story
a)
plot
b)
dialogue
c)
setting
d)
point of view
23.
The use of clues or hints to suggest event that will occur later in the plot
a)
foreshadowing
b)
idiom
c)
motif
d)
connotation
24.
When two or more words have the same sound
a)
rhyme
b)
dynamic character
c)
conflict
d)
irony
25.
Use of words that imitate or suggest their meaning
a)
onomatopoeia
b)
personification
c)
theme
d)
tone
26.
an exaggerated statement and is used to emphasize a point
a)
Hyperbole
b)
imagery
c)
dialogue
d)
climax
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