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Literary Elements (Keystone Vocabulary 3)

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  • Q1
    What is the turning point in a narrative or the moment when the conflict is most intense?
    Exposition
    Inciting Incident
    Rising Action
    Climax
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  • Q2
    What is the term for a narrative device often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances?
    Resolution
    Rising Action
    Climax
    Exposition
    30s
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  • Q3
    What is the term for the part of a literary plot that is characterized by diminishing tensions and the resolution of the plot's conflicts and complications?
    Falling Action
    Resolution
    Rising Action
    Exposition
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  • Q4
    What is the term for the "personal" point of view that relates events as they are perceived by a single character? The narrating character may offer opinions that differ from those of the author.
    Point of View
    Third Person
    First Person
    Focus
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  • Q5
    What is the term for the center of interest or attention?
    Mood
    Style
    Voice
    Focus
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  • Q6
    What is the term for an essential technique used in literature (Ex. characterization, setting, plot, theme)?
    Exposition
    Literary Elements
    Setting
    Style
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  • Q7
    What is the term for the prevailing emotions or atmosphere of a work derived from literary devices such as dialogue and literary elements such as setting?
    Tone
    Style
    Mood
    Theme
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  • Q8
    What is the term for he structure of a story and way the author arranges the events of a story. The structure usually includes rising action, climax, falling action, and then resolution?
    Theme
    Exposition
    Plot
    Focus
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  • Q9
    What is the he position of the narrator in relation to the story--the perspective from which a narrator presents information or the vantage point from which the story is told?
    Third Person
    Point of view
    First Person
    Focus
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  • Q10
    What is the term for the portion of a story following the climax in which the conflict is resolved?
    Falling Action
    Exposition
    Resolution
    Plot
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  • Q11
    What is the part of a story where the plot becomes increasingly complicated.
    Falling Action
    Inciting Incident
    Climax
    Rising Action
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  • Q12
    What is the term for the time and place in which a story unfolds?
    Theme
    Setting
    Plot
    Rising action
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  • Q13
    What is the term for the author's choices regarding language, sentence structure, voice, and tone in order to communicate with the reader
    Focus
    Style
    Mood
    Theme
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  • Q14
    What is a topic of a work; a major idea broad enough to cover the entire scope of the literary work. It may be stated or implied in a work, and is usually found in parts of the text that are reoccurring or are extremely prominent?
    Mood
    Focus
    Theme
    Resolution
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  • Q15
    What is a perspective in literature that presents the events of a story from outside of any single character's perception. It may be limited or omniscient.
    Point of View
    Third Person
    Mood
    First Person
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  • Q16
    What is the attitude of the author towards the audience, characters, subject, or the work itself (Ex. serious or humorous)
    Focus
    Point of View
    Style
    Tone
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  • Q17
    What is the fluency, rhythm, and liveliness in a text that make it unique to the author?
    Voice
    Theme
    Setting
    Tone
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