Lit Terms

Question 1

A person or animal in the story

Answer 1

Character

Question 2

This a character that stays the same. They don’t change

Answer 2

Static character

Question 3

This is a character that changes

Answer 3

Dynamic character

Question 4

Time and place of the story

Answer 4

Setting

Question 5

Perspective from which the story is told

Answer 5

Point of view

Question 6

Emotion or feeling for the reader

Answer 6

Mood

Question 7

Repeated idea or concept that goes beyond literature. The lesson from the story

Answer 7

Theme

Question 8

Story told by someone outside the story (outside narrator) but has limited knowledge of what’s happening.

Answer 8

3rd person limited

Question 9

Story told by someone outside the story and All knowing

Answer 9

3rd Person Omniscient

Question 10

Problem or struggle in the story

Answer 10

Conflict

Question 11

Mav vs. self

Answer 11

Internal Conflict

Question 12

Man vs. man

Answer 12

External conflict

Question 13

Man vs. nature
and
Man vs. the supernatural

Answer 13

External Conflict

Question 14

Sequence of events in a story

Answer 14

Plot

Question 15

Subtle hints of events to come

Answer 15

Foreshadowing

Question 16

Object or action that means more than its literal existence. A flag is an example

Answer 16

Symbol

Question 17

A comparison of two unlike things WITHOUT using like or as

Answer 17

Metaphor

Question 18

A comparison of two unlike things using like or as

Answer 18

Simile

Question 19

Giving living traits to inanimate objects.

Answer 19

Personification

Question 20

Words that sound like the sound they make. Boom and Zip are examples

Answer 20

Onomatopoeia

Question 21

Two opposites that make sense together

Answer 21

Oxymoron

Question 22

Extreme exaggeration

Answer 22

Hyperbole