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Literary Terms

Quiz by Shannyn Hanlon

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20 questions
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  • Q1
    A clue or allusion embedded in the narrative that predicts some later event
    Dialogue
    Narrative
    Resolution
    Foreshadowing
    45s
  • Q2
    Words spoken and put into quotation marks
    Foreshadowing
    Dialogue
    Resolution
    Narrative
    45s
  • Q3
    Problem of the story is resolved or worked out
    Climax
    Falling action
    Resolution
    Rising Action
    45s
  • Q4
    A message that tells the particulars of an act or occurance or course of events
    Dialogue
    Foreshadowing
    Falling Action
    Narrative
    45s
  • Q5
    The sequence of events in a story
    Plot
    Introduction
    Falling Action
    Rising Action
    45s
  • Q6
    A series of events that build the plot
    Rising Action
    Falling Action
    Resolution
    climax
    45s
  • Q7
    Characters, setting and basic plot idea is shared
    Climax
    Resolution
    Introduction
    Plot
    45s
  • Q8
    Turning point of narrative work at its highest tension
    Falling Action
    Climax
    Rising Action
    Introduction
    45s
  • Q9
    Literary action that happens after the climax and the conflict has been resolved.
    Falling Action
    Climax
    Resolution
    Rising Action
    45s
  • Q10
    The good guy - main character or hero of the story
    Protagonist
    Antagonist
    First Person POV
    3rd Person POV
    45s
  • Q11
    Bad guy - opponent of the protagonist, Audience hopes the antagonist is beaten
    Antagonist
    3rd Person POV
    Protagonist
    First Person POV
    45s
  • Q12
    Time, place, location of the story
    Climax
    Conflict
    Point of View
    Setting
    45s
  • Q13
    Story is written in a certain voice
    Point of View
    Setting
    Conflict
    Characters
    45s
  • Q14
    Point of view is from ME
    2nd Person
    1st Person
    3rd person
    3rd person omniscient
    45s
  • Q15
    Point of view is from YOU
    Second Person
    Third Person
    Third Person Omniscient
    First Person
    45s

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