Novel Study Terms

Question 1

What is personification?

Accepted Answer

Cars that talk like humans, Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects

Question 2

What is irony?

Accepted Answer

The opposite of what is expected

Question 3

What is the setting in a story?

Accepted Answer

time, atmosphere and place

Question 4

How many literary elements are in the image shown?

Accepted Answer

23

Question 5

What is rhyming?

Accepted Answer

Overused technique in writing song lyrics, A cat sat on a fat rat., Creativity Destroyer, Dr. Seuss' favourite technique in his children's books.

Question 6

Which is a metaphor?

Accepted Answer

A tornado, blasted into classes, his teachers' heads spun., All the world's a stage

Question 7

What is alliteration?

Accepted Answer

Using the same beginning consonant in a line or a verse, Apples and aardvarks

Question 8

What is conflict in a story?

Accepted Answer

All of these choices

Question 9

What is the plot in a story?

Accepted Answer

Intro, risitng action to climax, resolution, conclusion.

Question 10

What is your teacher's favourite book?

Accepted Answer

The Hobbit

Question 11

What is a paradox?

Accepted Answer

A seemingly contradictory statement that could be true

Question 12

What is an oxymoron?

Accepted Answer

Juxtaposed contradictory ideas that show contradiction

Question 13

What is the main character?

Accepted Answer

protagonist

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