Short Stories Test

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent words

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

-An expression designed to call something outside of the story to mind
-A reference to something else

Question 3

Author’s Craft

Answer 3

The tools and techniques the author uses to tell a story

Question 4

Characterzation

Answer 4

A literary device the author uses to describe the qualities of a character through narration, dialogue, and action in order to develop a character in the story.

Question 5

Climax

Answer 5

The most intense or exciting part of the story

Question 6

Conflict

Answer 6

A struggle between opposing forces

Question 7

Context Clues

Answer 7

Information about a word that helps the reader understand its meaning

Question 8

Dialogue

Answer 8

A conversation between two or more people

Question 9

Exposition

Answer 9

-Important background information within a story
-Usually includes the setting and characters

Question 10

Flashbacks

Answer 10

A transition in a story to an earlier time that interrupts the normal order of events

Question 11

Foreshadowing

Answer 11

A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story

Question 12

Genre

Answer 12

Categories of literature organized by specific characteristics

Question 13

Hyperbole

Answer 13

An extreme exaggeration

Question 14

Irony

Answer 14

When an event or statement seems to deliberately be the opposite of what is expected

Question 15

Main idea

Answer 15

-The overall idea of a paragraph or section of a text
-What the section is mostly about

Question 16

Metaphor

Answer 16

-A direct comparison
-Comparing two unlike things without using like or as

Question 17

Mood

Answer 17

When the writing evokes certain feelings or vibes to the reader

Question 18

Onomatopoeia

Answer 18

A word that imitates its sound

Question 19

Personification

Answer 19

When human characteristics are given to something nonhuman

Question 20

Perspective

Answer 20

When the story is told through a particular set of eyes so that the reader understands that particular character’s thoughts and feelings

Question 21

Point of View

Answer 21

The way in which the story is told:
-First person
-Second person
-Third person: limited or omniscient

Question 22

Resolution

Answer 22

The ending of a story

Question 23

Rhyme Scheme

Answer 23

The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse

Question 24

Rising Action

Answer 24

A series of relevant incidents that create suspense interest and tension in a story

Question 25

Symbolism

Answer 25

An object or concept that represents something else.

Question 26

Setting

Answer 26

The time and place of a story

Question 27

Simile

Answer 27

A comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as

Question 28

Text Structure

Answer 28

How the information within a written text is organized

Question 29

Theme

Answer 29

-The message of the author
-The meaning behind a story

Question 30

External Conflict

Answer 30

Man vs. Man, Man vs. Society, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Techologhy

Question 31

Internal Conflict

Answer 31

Man vs. Self

Question 32

First Person

Answer 32

Told from the perspective of a story’s narrator

Question 33

Second Person

Answer 33

Address the reader directly

Question 34

Third Person– Limited

Answer 34

Only know what is going on inside the mind of one person

Question 35

Third Person–Omniscient

Answer 35

Full knowledge of all characters and situations