Literary Term Quiz

Tenzing Younten

Period 8

Literary Element Assessment

• Plot - The sequence of events that happen in a story.

• Setting - The time and place in which a story happens.

• Theme - The lesson or message the reader learns by the end of a story.

• Imagery - Highly descriptive language that appeals to the five senses.

• Conflict - A problem, struggle or obstacle faced by characters in the story.

• Symbol - A person, place or thing that represents something else, usually an idea or belief.

• Narration - The particular perspective from which a story is told.

• Foreshadowing - Indications or hints given in a story for what will happen later on.

• Characterization - Using a character's actions, speech or thoughts to determine who that character is in a story.

• Metaphor - A figure of speech in which two unlike things are directly compared without use of like or as.

• Protagonist - The central character in a work of literature in which the action of the story revolves around.

• Antagonist - Any opposing character or force that acts against the protagonist in a story.

• Climax - Part of the plot structure; the point in a story when the fate of the protagonist is forever changed; the turning point.

• Resolution - Part of the plot structure; the ending of a story when events are usually resolved.

• Exposition - The beginning of a plot of the story when the setting, characters and initial conflicts are introduced.

• Genre - Any category of literature, such as fiction, non-fiction, memoir, etc.

• Simile - A figure of speech in which two unlike things are being compared using the words like or as.

• Personification - A figure of speech in which non-living or inanimate things are given human-like qualities.

• Alliteration - A figure of speech in which the same consonant sound repeats at the beginning of a word.

• Hyperbole - A figure of speech when comparisons are made in an extreme or exaggerated way.