Literary Terms

Question 1

A brief fictional story

Answer 1

Short Story

Question 2

Events in the story

Answer 2

Plot

Question 3

Message or lesson

Answer 3

Theme

Question 4

Where and when the story takes place

Answer 4

Setting

Question 5

How a character is portrayed

Answer 5

Characterization

Question 6

The narrator tells us what a character is like “You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch!”

Answer 6

Direct Characterization

Question 7

We find out through dialogue, description of the character, and what others say

Answer 7

Indirect Characterization

Question 8

Main Character

Answer 8

Protagonist

Question 9

The character that has a conflict with the protagonist

Answer 9

Antagonist

Question 10

Many human traits make a personality

Answer 10

Round Character

Question 11

One personality trait-stereotype

Answer 11

Flat Character

Question 12

A character who changes mentally by the end of the story

Answer 12

Dynamic Character

Question 13

A character who doesn’t change

Answer 13

Static Charater

Question 14

Expectation vs. Reality

Answer 14

Irony

Question 15

Sarcastic remarks “I can’t wait to go to Ms. Bailie’s class to take notes!”

Answer 15

Verbal Irony

Question 16

Something happens that isn’t expected =fire station burns down, powerplant goes out, police station gets robbed

Answer 16

Situational Irony

Question 17

The audience knows something that the character doesn’t. A killer is behind the shower curtain- the victim walks into the bathroom.

Answer 17

Dramatic Irony

Question 18

Reference to history or culture that the author expects us to know

Answer 18

Allusion

Question 19

Internal Conflict

Answer 19

Problem
-Man vs.___self

Question 20

The perspective of the story

Answer 20

Point of view

Question 21

Narrator uses I

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First Person

Question 22

The narrator is not in the story but knows all things

Answer 22

Third person Omniscient

Question 23

“You”, recipes, how-to guides, instructions

Answer 23

Second Person

Question 24

The narrator is not in story but only knows one person’s point of view

Answer 24

Third person limited

Question 25

External conflict

Answer 25

Problem -Man vs.___man___ -Man vs.___nature___ --Man vs.___society___ -Man vs.___higher power/fate

Question 26

Characters that are opposites of each other

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Foil

Question 27

Comparison using like or as "He was as fast as a cheetah."

Answer 27

Simile

Question 28

Comparison not using like or as"He was a cheetah on the field"

Answer 28

Metaphor

Question 29

Giving human traits to nonhuman objects

Answer 29

Personification

Question 30

Past Memories

Answer 30

Flashback

Question 31

Giving hints as to what will happen in the future

Answer 31

Foreshadowing

Question 32

Story with a moral or lesson/ characters are symbolic and literal

Answer 32

Allegory

Question 33

Making fun of weaknesses in society to prove a point

Answer 33

Satire

Question 34

How a story/reading makes the reader feel

Answer 34

Mood

Question 35

The author's attitude toward his/her work

Answer 35

Tone

Question 36

The language that appeals to the 5 senses

Answer 36

imagery

Question 37

Something that represents an idea or believe dove=peace, flag=patriotism, skull and crossbones= poison

Answer 37

Symbolism

Question 38

Conversation between players

Answer 38

Dialogue

Question 39

Background info in a story (Characters, conflict, setting)

Answer 39

Exposition

Question 40

Found in the exposition. Hooks the reader's attention so they want to keep reading

Answer 40

Narrative Hook

Question 41

Events in the story leaving to the climax of the conflict

Answer 41

Rising Action

Question 42

The highest point of interest in the story-the Ah Ha moment

Answer 42

Climax

Question 43

Events leading to the end of the story

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Falling action

Question 44

The conflict is resolved at the end of the story. Not always a happily ever after

Answer 44

Resolution

Question 45

Long poem or story narrating a hero's deeds and adventures

Answer 45

Epic

Question 46

Extreme exaggertion. "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse" "The limo is as long as a football field"

Answer 46

Hyperbole

Question 47

Words that sound like the noise/sound effects "Oink" "Meow" "Bang" "Boom"

Answer 47

Onomatopoeia

Question 48

Long by a speech by a character on stage alone (thinking aloud)

Answer 48

Soliloquy

Question 49

Feelings of excites or anxious uncertainty about something

Answer 49

Suspense

Question 50

The author's use of language makes the story unique

Answer 50

Voice

Question 51

Words that contradict each other(jumbo shrimp, pretty ugly, icy hot, small crowd, old news

Answer 51

Oxymoron

Question 52

A traditional story concerning a history of a people explaining a natural event

Answer 52

Myth