English Quiz

Question 1

Fiction

Answer 1

Anything made up or imagined

Question 2

Novel

Answer 2

Long work of fiction

Question 3

Short story

Answer 3

Brief work of fiction

Question 4

Characters

Answer 4

People who take part in the action of the story

Question 5

Main characters

Answer 5

Most important characters

Question 6

Minor characters

Answer 6

Less important characters

Question 7

Theme

Answer 7

Pain idea

Question 8

Setting

Answer 8

Event of a story in a particular time and place

Question 9

Plot

Answer 9

Chain of related events that make up a story

Question 10

Conflict

Answer 10

The major problem of the plot

Question 11

Exposition

Answer 11

Background information provided at the beginning of a story

Question 12

Rising action

Answer 12

Continual complexity and intensity of plot and characters

Question 13

Climax

Answer 13

Peak of intensity in the story

Question 14

Falling action

Answer 14

Subsiding of intensity in the story

Question 15

Resolution

Answer 15

Final part of a story

Question 16

Contrast

Answer 16

Finding difference between two things

Question 17

Nonfiction

Answer 17

Writing that deals with real fiction, people, places, facts, and events

Question 18

Audience

Answer 18

The person/s for whom he or she is watching

Question 19

Point of view

Answer 19

The way a writer tells a story

Question 20

Cause

Answer 20

The reason why another event happens

Question 21

Cause

Answer 21

The reason why another event happened.

Question 22

Characterization

Answer 22

The way a writer creates a story

Question 23

Alliteration

Answer 23

Repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of words

Question 24

Assonance

Answer 24

Repetition of vowel sounds with in words

Question 25

Onomatopoeia

Answer 25

The use of words that imitate sounds

Question 26

Rhyme

Answer 26

Repetition of sounds at the end of words

Question 27

Rhythm

Answer 27

The pattern of accented and I accented syllables in a line

Question 28

Free verse

Answer 28

Rhythm that resembles the patterns of everyday speech

Question 29

Imagery

Answer 29

Words that helps readers see, hear, taste, feel, and smell things being discribed

Question 30

Figurative language

Answer 30

Language that describes things in a fresh new way

Question 31

Simile

Answer 31

Compares two dissimilar things using the words like or as

Question 32

Metaphor

Answer 32

A direct comparison of unlike things

Question 33

Personification

Answer 33

Gives human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

Question 34

Visualize

Answer 34

Picture in your mind images described by writer

Question 35

Suspense

Answer 35

Tension or excitement in a plot

Question 36

Mood

Answer 36

The feeling or attitude the writer creates in the reader

Question 37

Irony

Answer 37

Occurs when a character or reader expects 1 thing to happen but something entirely different occurs

Question 38

Foreshadowing

Answer 38

Writer’s use of hints or clues to indicate events that will happen

Question 39

Dialect

Answer 39

The variety of language spoken in 1 place by a group of people

Question 40

Interior monologue

Answer 40

Inside thoughts