Lit terms

Question 1

the perspective from which an author presents the conflicts, characters, and events of a story

Answer 1

point of view

Question 2

narrate the story; can be anything from impersonal narrators who remain unnamed to characters in the story who have their own highly developed personalities

Answer 2

persona

Question 3

type of third-person narrative in which the storyteller “knows all”

Answer 3

omniscient viewpoint

Question 4

type of third- person narrative in which the storyteller only tells one character’s thoughts, usually the protagonist

Answer 4

limited-omniscient viewpoint

Question 5

narrator is a character who uses first-person pronouns “I” and “we,” relates only what the narrator character can reasonably know of the events and people around him

Answer 5

first person viewpoint

Question 6

categories or types of literature

Answer 6

genre

Question 7

a second story set within the opening and closing narrative

Answer 7

frame story

Question 8

a short narrative of a single interesting or amusing incident

Answer 8

anecdote

Question 9

any fictional story employing real characters and settings from a time period other than the one it was written in

Answer 9

historical fiction

Question 10

wrote The Age of Miracles

Answer 10

Melville Davisson Post

Question 11

story with Abner, Randolph, Julia, and Benton Wolf (Adam Wolf too, but he died)

Answer 11

The Age of Miracles

Question 12

wrote By Any Other Name

Answer 12

Santha Rama Rau

Question 13

story about two Indian girls suffering from discrimination

Answer 13

By Any Other Name

Question 14

story with Framton Nuttel, Mrs. Sappleton, and Vera

Answer 14

The Open Window

Question 15

wrote The Open Window

Answer 15

H. H. Munro (Saki)

Question 16

wrote After the Battle

Answer 16

Joseph A. Altsheler

Question 17

story with Dave Joyce and Bill Ryder

Answer 17

After the Battle

Question 18

who was the kind man in After the Battle; the protagonist

Answer 18

Dave Joyce

Question 19

Arabian folktale with Ali Baba, his brother Cassim, and Morgiana

Answer 19

The Forty Thieves

Question 20

By Any Other Name is _____ point of view

Answer 20

first person

Question 21

Age of Miracles is _____ point of view

Answer 21

first person

Question 22

The Open Window is ____ viewpoint

Answer 22

limited omniscient

Question 23

After the Battle is ____ viewpoint

Answer 23

limited-omniscient

Question 24

The Forty Thieves is _____ viewpoint

Answer 24

omniscient

Question 25

Identify what story these quotes or characteristics are from:
1. “Then he stooped, lifted the wounded man upon his powerful shoulders, and went on over the hill.”
2. “Romance at short notice was her specialty”
3. Criticizes the tendency to change people’s culture and force things upon them

Answer 25

1. After the Battle
2. The Open Window
3. By Any Other Name