Novel Study Terms

Question 1

What is an oxymoron?

Accepted Answer

Juxtaposed contradictory ideas that show contradiction

Question 2

How many literary elements are in the image shown?

Accepted Answer

23

Question 3

What is the main character?

Accepted Answer

protagonist

Question 4

What is rhyming?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 5

What is the plot in a story?

Accepted Answer

Intro, risitng action to climax, resolution, conclusion.

Question 6

What is alliteration?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 7

What is conflict in a story?

Accepted Answer

All of these choices

Question 8

What is your teacher's favourite book?

Accepted Answer

The Hobbit

Question 9

Which is a metaphor?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 10

What is irony?

Accepted Answer

The opposite of what is expected

Question 11

What is a paradox?

Accepted Answer

A seemingly contradictory statement that could be true

Question 12

What is the setting in a story?

Accepted Answer

time, atmosphere and place

Question 13

What is personification?

Accepted Answer

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

Questions 13