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This assesses students on common literary terms.
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Which term is the specific way that a writer uses language, including word choice and length?
Point of view
Characterization
Style
Irony
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Which literary term has meaning beyond the literaral meaning, also known as "figure of speech."
Irony
Imagery
Dialect
Figurative Language
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What is an example of personification?
My shoes were killing me today.
The flowers were like dancers.
Her life was like a million years long.
My computer threw a fit today.
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What is an example of a simile?
What was I thinking?!?!?
This class is so awesome I might die.
Life is a box of chocolates.
It's as good as gold.
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What is the term that is the perspective from which the story is told?
Symbol
Imagery
Point of View
Foreshadowing
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What is an example of a metaphor?
I'm so hungry I could die.
Time is greater than money.
The snow is like a white blanket.
The snow is a white blanket.
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Which term has words that are used to suggest the opposite of their usual meaning?
Satire
Humor
Style
Irony
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Which literary term uses words or phrases that appeal to the reader's senses?
Foreshadowing
Imagery
Characterization
Metaphor
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What is an example of a hyperbole?
I REALLY wanted to go to the pool today.
My friend is like a mind reader.
Mr. Newsted knows everything about math.
This month was like a race.
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What is a writing that comments humorously on human flaws, ideas in order to change them?
Metaphor
Simile
Satire
Personification
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Which term has speech that uses pronunciation, vocab, and grammar from a specific place?
Suspense
Dialect
Style
Symbol
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What literary term describes techniques a writer uses to create and develop a character?
Dialect
Characterization
Point of View
Characters
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Which term is a person, place, or thing that represents something beyond itself?
Foreshadowing
Symbol
Suspense
Point of view
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What literary term drops important hints to prepare the reader for what is to come?
Simile
Dialect
Irony
Foreshadowing
