NAME: ________________________

Literary Terms Test

Question Types


Prompt With


Question Limit

of 15 available terms

5 Written Questions

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. Time and Place
    When and Where
  2. Making an educated guess.
    Clues + experience = inference
  3. Compare: how things are alike. Contrast: how things are different.
  4. High point or turning point,
    Conflict is being resolved
  5. The difference between what you expect to happen and what does happen
    An unexpected twist.

5 True/False Questions

  1. Authors PurposeWhy an author writes, to explain, to inform, to persuade, and to entertain

          

  2. Point of viewWho tells a story
    1st person- Character
    2nd person - You, the reader
    3rd- Narrator

          

  3. ConflictProblem in the story Internal-
    Inside the character External-
    Outside the character
    Both- Internal and External

          

  4. Cause and EffectCause: why something happens. Effect: the result of what happens.

          

  5. Main ideaThe most important idea
    Expressed in a peace of writing