Short Story Test

Question 1

Narrator takes part in action; they only know their own thoughts

Answer 1

First person

Question 2

Narrator does not take part in action

Answer 2

Third person

Question 3

One persons internal thoughts

Answer 3

Limited

Question 4

Character knows more than ones thoughts/feelings

Answer 4

Omniscient

Question 5

The person telling the story

Answer 5

Narrator

Question 6

Brief story that teaches a lesson

Answer 6

Parable

Question 7

Entire literary work has a literal meaning and figural meaning too

Answer 7

Allegory

Question 8

Something that represents itself or something else

Answer 8

Symbol

Question 9

Categorizing literature

Answer 9

Genre

Question 10

Something that repeats throughout literature

Answer 10

Motif

Question 11

Reference to anything one thinks audience might know

Answer 11

Allusion

Question 12

Comparison of two normally uncompared things

Answer 12

Metaphor

Question 13

Comparison of two unlike things using like or as

Answer 13

Simile

Question 14

Giving something to human qualities or action

Answer 14

Personification

Question 15

Comparison of two normally compared things that Is stretched

Answer 15

Extended metaphor

Question 16

Language spoken by people of region, population, time, or religion

Answer 16

Dialect

Question 17

Hints a future event in a literary work

Answer 17

Foreshadowing

Question 18

Increase of drama or suspends in a story; when you know something that one or more characters don’t

Answer 18

Dramatic irony

Question 19

When situation violates expectation of audience or characters or both

Answer 19

Situational irony

Question 20

Words come not intended

Answer 20

Verbal irony/sarcasm

Question 21

Violation of an expectation or difference of something expected; exists when foreshadowing doesn’t happen

Answer 21

Irony

Question 22

Introduction, workthrough, and resolution of a conflict

Answer 22

Plot

Question 23

Gives information

Answer 23

Exposition/introduction

Question 24

Conflict doesn’t exist anymore

Answer 24

Resolution

Question 25

Unties loose ends of a story

Answer 25

Denouement

Question 26

When the resolution turns bad

Answer 26

Catastrophe

Question 27

Manner of which story is told mirrors the mind; random

Answer 27

Stream of consciousness

Question 28

Reference to a previous event with the main character; normally a biproduct of stream of consciousness

Answer 28

Flashback

Question 29

Perspective from which a story is told; comes in first or third person

Answer 29

Point of view