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WorksheetsPractice all Literary Terms for 8th Grade English
Total questions: 67
Worksheet time: 1hrs 7mins
What is the literary term for 'a brief work of fiction'?
Biography
Epic
Short Story
Sonnet
What is the literary term for 'writing that tells about real people, places, objects, events, and ideas'?
Drama
Fiction
Poetry
Nonfiction
What is the literary term for 'literature that appears in verse form'?
Prose
Poetry
Drama
Novel
What is the literary term for 'written to be performed by actors; it can be written in verse, prose, or both'?
Drama
Novel
Poem
Essay
What is the literary term for 'a speech given by a character who is alone on stage'?
Monologue
Soliloquy
Dialogue
Aside
What is the literary term for 'literature of a specific people or culture that is passed down through generations'?
Sonnet
Satire
Epic
Folklore
What is the literary term for 'sequence of events'?
Plot
Theme
Setting
Conflict
What is the literary term for 'the beginning of a story that includes background information'?
Exposition
Climax
Denouement
Foreshadowing
What is the literary term for 'stage that sets the plot in motion'?
Resolution
Climax
Falling action
Inciting incident
What is the literary term for 'the action leading to the climax'?
Rising action
Falling action
Resolution
Exposition
What is the literary term for 'the high point of the story'?
Exposition
Climax
Falling action
Resolution
What is the literary term for 'the action following the climax'?
Climax
Exposition
Rising action
Falling action
What is the literary term for 'the end of the story when the conflict is resolved'?
Climax
Exposition
Resolution
Foreshadowing
What is the literary term for 'the people, or animals that participate in the action'?
Setting
Characters
Plots
Themes
What is the literary term for 'possess many different personality traits'?
Round characters
Flat characters
Static characters
Stock characters
What is the literary term for 'have only one basic trait'?
Static characters
Round characters
Dynamic characters
Flat charcters
What is the literary term for 'develop or grow during the story'?
Dynamic characters
Static characters
Protagonist
Antagonist
What is the literary term for 'stay the same'?
Antagonist
Dynamic characters
Protagonist
Static characters
What is the literary term for 'the main character'?
Antagonist
Protagonist
Narrator
Foil
What is the literary term for 'someone or something against the main character'?
Narrator
Protagonist
Antagonist
Foil
What is the literary term for 'the time and place of the action'?
Setting
Theme
Plot
Characterization
What is the literary term for 'the message an author reveals through a story or poem'?
Characterization
Plot
Setting
Theme
What is the literary term for 'perspective from which the story is told'?
Foreshadowing
Point of view
Metaphor
Irony
What is the literary term for 'speaker or character who tells the story'?
Audience
Protagonist
Antagonist
Narrator
The “I” narrator / the narrator is part of the action (More personal) is called _________.
First person
Second person
Third person limited
Omniscient
The use of the pronoun you to address the reader (More informal or persuasive) is called _________.
First Person
Third Person
Passive Voice
Second Person
The narrator is someone outside of the story. Uses pronouns like he and she. (More objective, formal, and impersonal) is called _________.
Narrator
First person
Second person
Third person
The narrator is all-knowing and knows the thoughts of characters is called _________.
Third Person Omniscient
First Person Limited
Third Person Limited
Second Person
Told by a narrator outside the story. Only the thoughts and feelings of one character are described is called _________
Second Person
First Person
Third Person Omniscient
Third Person Limited
Told by a narrator outside the story who can only report what he or she sees. The narrator does not know the thoughts or feelings of the characters unless told is called _________.
Third Person Omniscient
First Person Limited
Third Person Objective
Second Person
Material that is invented or imagined is called _________.
Fiction
Non-fiction
Biography
Autobiography
The use of an object to represent something else is called _________.
Metaphor
Symbolism
Irony
Hyperbole
A scene from the past that interrupts the present is called _________.
Dialogue
Foreshadowing
Climax
Flashback
Clues given to create suspense is called _________.
Flashback
Irony
Foreshadowing
Satire
Words that appeal to the readers’ senses are called _________.
Metaphor
Imagery
Alliteration
Irony
Giving human characteristics to a non-human subject is called _________.
Personification
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Alliteration
The author’s attitude toward his work is called _________.
Setting
Theme
Plot
Tone
The overall feeling of a literary work is called _________.
Theme
Mood
Plot
Setting
Mocks or ridicules society is called _________.
Allegory
Satire
Fable
Parody
Anything out of its proper time in history is called _________.
Anachronism
Euphemism
Neologism
Metaphor
The act of creating or developing a character is called _________.
Setting
Narration
Dialogue
Characterization
The author directly states a character’s traits is called _________.
Direct characterization
Indirect characterization
Foreshadowing
Irony
The reader must figure out the character’s traits is called _________.
Flashback
Direct characterization
Foreshadowing
Indirect characterization
A struggle between opposing forces is called _________.
Harmony
Resolution
Conflict
Agreement
Conflict that is within the character (man vs. himself) is called _________
External Conflict
Internal Conflict
Physical Conflict
Social Conflict
What is the literary term for conflict that is outside the character (man vs. man / man vs. nature)?
External Conflict
Internal Conflict
Foreshadowing
Theme
What is the literary term for when the reader knows more than the characters?
Metaphor
Foreshadowing
Dramatic irony
Allusion
What is the literary term for words that suggest the opposite of what is meant, such as sarcasm?
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Alliteration
Verbal irony
What is the literary term for the opposite of what is expected happening?
Alliteration
Metaphor
Irony of situation
Hyperbole
What is the literary term for a reference to a statement, a person, a place or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science or pop culture?
Irony
Metaphor
Allusion
Hyperbole
What is an author's choice of words called?
Imagery
Syntax
Tone
Diction
What is the literary term for all the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests?
Connotation
Denotation
Alliteration
Irony
What is the dictionary meaning of a word called?
Connotation
Denotation
Annotation
Intonation
What is the literary term for talking about something as if it were something else? Example: He is a monster.
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Alliteration
What is the literary term for comparing two things using 'like' or 'as'?
Personification
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
What is the literary term for an extended simile or metaphor that shows how two things are similar in two or more ways?
Irony
Analogy
Hyperbole
Alliteration
What is the literary term for a saying or expression that means something different in a certain region? Example: Break a leg.
Idiom
Metaphor
Proverb
Simile
What is the literary term for a huge exaggeration?
Alliteration
Metaphor
Irony
Hyperbole
What is the literary term for an expression that combines contradictory words? Example: Cold fire or Organized chaos.
Oxymoron
Metaphor
Alliteration
Hyperbole
What is the stylistic device for the repetition of similar sounds at the beginning of words? Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Alliteration
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
What is the stylistic device for the use of a word that imitates a sound? Example: Buzz or Hiss.
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Hyperbole
What is the stylistic device for the same and similar sounds at the end of words?
Metaphor
Alliteration
Rhyme
Simile
What is the stylistic device for the use of the same word or words?
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Alliteration
Repetition
climax
exposition
rising action, inciting incident, climax, exposition, falling action, resolution
exposition, rising action, falling action, climax, resolution, inciting incident
exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
exposition, resolution, inciting incident, rising action, falling action climax
The lesson or moral of the story is called the what?
conflict
main character
topic
theme
