WorksheetsStudy for Literary Terms Final
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
1. What is it called when the story continues, conflict unfolds, and suspense thickens?
a)
rising action
b)
fiction
c)
mood
d)
resolution
2.
2. What is it called when the story is at its turning point, and the action reaches a peak?
a)
tone
b)
climax
c)
conflict
d)
denotation
3.
3. What is the writer's attitude towards his or her subject?
a)
mood
b)
motives
c)
tone
d)
theme
4.
4. What occurs at the end of the story when loose ends are tied up and the story ends?
a)
point of view
b)
symbol
c)
motives
d)
resolution
5.
5. What is the main character of the story called?
a)
synonym
b)
protagonist
c)
antagonist
d)
alliteration
6.
6. What is the working force against the main character called?
a)
antagonist
b)
irony
c)
conflict
d)
hyperbole
7.
7. What are stories that come from a writer’s imagination; made up called?
a)
plot
b)
dialect
c)
motives
d)
fiction
8.
8. What do we call the meaning, moral, or main message the writer wishes to share with the reader?
a)
theme
b)
traits
c)
flashback
d)
foreshadow
9.
9. What is the sequence of events in a story called?
a)
personification
b)
plot
c)
protagonist
d)
point of view
10.
10. What is the problem or struggle between opposing forces called?
a)
simile
b)
symbolism
c)
conflict
d)
connotation
11.
11. What is the feeling or atmosphere a literary work conveys to the reader?
a)
traits
b)
tone
c)
metaphor
d)
mood
12.
12. What sets the stage for the story, characters are introduced and the setting is described?
a)
plot
b)
irony
c)
exposition
d)
genre
13.
13. What do we call a word that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language?
a)
synonym
b)
foreshadowing
c)
denotation
d)
flashback
14.
14. What is it called when there is a contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant or between what happens and what is expected to happen in life and in literature? (Kidnappers having to pay a ransom to get rid of a kid)
a)
simile
b)
rising action
c)
climax
d)
irony
15.
15. What is the figure of speech involving exaggeration?
a)
symbol
b)
hyperbole
c)
resolution
d)
theme
16.
16. What is the literary device used to describe words or images that appeal to the five senses and help create a vivid description for the reader.
a)
irony
b)
motives
c)
imagery
d)
traits
17.
17. What are the more permanent qualities of a character's personality?
a)
climax
b)
personification
c)
antagonist
d)
traits
18.
18. What is the literary device used to describe an object or action that stands for more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself?
a)
hyperbole
b)
symbolism
c)
point of view
d)
fiction
19.
19. What is it called when the present is interrupted to reveal events that happened in the past?
a)
motives
b)
symbol
c)
flashback
d)
fiction
20.
20. What is it called when a writer hints at future events?
a)
foreshadowing
b)
exposition
c)
metaphor
d)
simile
21.
21. What is the literary device an author uses to give human qualities to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions?
a)
hyperbole
b)
traits
c)
personification
d)
protagonist
22.
22. What is the literary device that uses the repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words? (Sally Sue sailed seven seas to see her sailor, Sam.)
a)
connotation
b)
exposition
c)
alliteration
d)
antagonist
23.
23. What is a word's dictionary definition?
a)
resolution
b)
denotation
c)
motives
d)
theme
24.
24. What is the figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared, as in “she is like a rose.” (uses like or as to make the comparison)
a)
metaphor
b)
climax
c)
symbol
d)
simile
25.
25. What is the implied meaning of a word? This includes the feelings both positive and negative that are associated with the word.
a)
climax
b)
connotation
c)
denotation
d)
dialect
26.
26. What is the perspective from which a story is told? It is the perspective of the narrator.
a)
point blank
b)
plot
c)
point of no return
d)
point of view
27.
27. What do we call a particular form of a language that is particular to a specific region or social group?
a)
dialect
b)
dialog
c)
denotation
d)
dictionary
28.
28. What terms means a type or category of literature?
a)
symbol
b)
motivated
c)
generic
d)
genre
29.
29. What are the reasons a character acts the way that they do? This is desire that prompts action.
a)
motives
b)
metaphor
c)
traits
d)
fiction
30.
30. A comparison of two things without using the words "like" or "as". "My love is a red, red rose." (saying one thing IS the other thing)
a)
simile
b)
flashback
c)
metaphor
d)
hyperbole
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