1. Ms.

McGee walks up to his classroom door one afternoon and sees Tiffany standing in the middle of the
room delivering a speech and expressing intense emotion. No one else is present. Were this being done
on stage, we know this would be an example of:
A. an aside
B. dramatic irony
C. a soliloquy
D. irony of situation
2. While lecturing (off topic) on the types of rocks, Ms. McGee refers to something she said yesterday.
What has she done?
A. made an allusion
B. illustrated the denouement
C. performed juxtaposition
D. created a genre
3. The part of the plot in which conflicts build is called the:
A. falling action
B. exposition
C.denouement
D.rising action
4. You watch a movie and a character says something you know she doesn't mean. She has used:
A. verbal irony
B. dramatic irony
C. situational irony
5. Another name for the main character in a work of literature is the:
A. protagonist
B. shrew
C. archetype
D.antagonist
6. The resolution of a story is also called the:
A.denouement
B.exposition
C.falling action
D.complications

7. You finish reading a book and think, "Wow, that's not the way I thought things would turn out at all."
When things turn out opposite from the way we expect, we recognize this as:
A.irony of situation
B.verbal irony
C.dramatic irony
8. The main idea of a work is its:
A.theme
B.tone
C. cliche
D.sentimentality
9. You are reading a play, and the main character is unaware of things that are going on behind his back.
You, however, know things that the character does not know. This is an example of:
A. dramatic irony
B.verbal irony
 C.situational irony
10. An antagonist is:
A. a variety of prairie chicken widely raised and eaten in Iowa and Nebraska.
B.the main character in a work of literature.
C.a character or force opposing the main character.
D.always a "bad guy."
11. Cody May looks down and sees a giant grasshopper crawling across the floor. He is trying to decide
whether or not to eat it because his teacher (who always tells the truth) explained to him that they are
full of nutrients. Cody is experiencing an:
A. external conflict
B. internal conflict
12. One day and without any warning, a gnome walks into Ms. McGee's room and whacks Megan on one of
the shins with a plastic shovel. Then, the gnome runs over and bites Gavin on the ankle. These are
examples of:
A. external conflicts
B.internal conflicts
13. You read a story in which the narrator is a participant in events and tells about everything from his own
perspective. Obviously, this is a narrative account written in:
A. third person limited point of view
B.first person point of view
C.third person omniscient point of view
D. second person point of view

14. An object or idea that has its own meaning and represents something else as well.

A. irony
B. allusion
C. symbol
D. inference

15. Hints or clues provided by the author that permit the reader to predict what might happen later in the
story.
A. foreshadowing
B. irony
C. characterization
D. setting
16. A series of related events(what happens in the story).
A. theme
B. setting
C. plot
D. irony

17. A rose often stands for love is an example of

A. metaphor
B. external conflict
C. symbol
D. theme
 18. This is made of the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.

A. theme
B. plot
C. irony
D. foreshadowing

19. Your personal narrative is written in what point of view?

A. 3rd Person Omnisicient

B. 2nd Person
C. 1st Person
D. 3rd Person Limited

20. The rising action of a short story is

A. the conflict intensifying

B. the high point of a story
C. the ending events
21. Which literary term refers to that part of a story in which the problem or struggle is solved?
A. climax
B. resolution
C. exposition
D. falling action

22. Which literary term refers to the feeling a story creates in the reader?
A. tone
B. mood
C. irony
D. diction

23. A person or thing fighting against the hero of a story

A. protagonist
B. narrator
C. character
D. antagonist

24. "as he forged along he saw to his great astonishment that all the lights were in one
enormous building - a lofty structure with pointed towers plunging upward into the
gloom." This quote from The Most Dangerous Game is an example of

A. internal conflict
B. setting
C. direct characterization
D. theme

25. An example of _______________ is the following:

" Rainsford's first impression was the man was singularly handsome; his second was that
there was an original, almost bizarre quality about the general's face."
 A. foreshadowing
B. direct characterization
C. mood
Which literary ter text

D. indirect characterization

A.
B.
C.
D.