Fundamentals of English Literary Elements

Question 1

Who carries out the actions of the plot in a story?

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characters

Question 2

When the story jumps to a different time and place it's called a

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flashback

Question 3

These two ladies appear to be engaged in:

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dialogue

Question 4

When and where a story takes place is the

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Setting

Question 5

An old, rundown house at the end of a dark street is an example of

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setting

Question 6

Horror, fantasy, and science fiction are all examples of what?

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genre

Question 7

The message that the author is trying to tell by telling a story is called ____ .

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theme

Question 8

The way in which an author chooses to use the English language is called

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style

Question 9

Which would be an example of characterization?

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all of the above

Question 10

Sometimes characters can be animals and even objects.

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true

Question 11

___ is the time and place of a story.

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setting

Question 12

The plot is:

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the events that make up a story

Question 13

"You're dead!" is an example of

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dialogue

Question 14

The person or thing that is creating the conflict for the protagonist

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antagonist

Question 15

A feeling of anxious uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work is a mood called

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suspense

Question 16

The antagonist is a person, group, or force that

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opposes another character/ protagonist

Question 17

The feelings that the storyteller intends for the reader to feel is

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mood

Question 18

Some of Cody Allen's favorite characters are Marvel characters.

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true

Question 19

Life is unfair. This saying could be the ____ of a story.

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theme

Question 20

Something early on in the story that suggests that something will happen later on in the story

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foreshadowing

Question 21

"It was a dark and stormy night" is an attempt by an author to create a

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mood

Question 22

The struggle between opposing forces that drives the action of a story is the:

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conflict

Question 23

Writing from this point of view uses pronouns such as "I" and "me"

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First person

Question 24

The use of clues that suggests events that will occur later in the plot

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foreshadowing

Question 25

A speaker outside the story who tells the story

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narrator

Question 26

The story The Turtle and the Hare has "Slow and steady wins the race" as its ____ .

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theme

Question 27

The perspective from which a story is told is called

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point of view

Question 28

The hero of the story is called the

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protagonist

Question 29

In literature, the ________ is how the reader feels after reading the selection.

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mood

Question 30

When the writer herself tells what happens in the story

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narration

Question 31

Writing in this point of view uses pronouns such as "he," "she," or "they"

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third person

Question 32

It is sometimes interesting to tell a story out of order. To do this you could use a ____ .

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flashback

Question 33

The central problem that the protagonist must solve or face

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conflict

Question 34

When a character describes what something looks like, smells like, or tastes like, the story is being told in the

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first-person point of view

Question 35

The protagonist___________

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is the main character in a literary work

Question 36

The category to which the story belongs in the tradition of literature is called

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genre

Question 37

A female babysitter keeps getting threatening phone calls from someone who's watching her every move is an example of

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plot

Question 38

____ is the series of events that take place in a story.

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plot

Question 39

When the writer uses the words that come out of a character's mouth

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dialogue

Question 40

The main or central idea of a story. The moral or message of the story.

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theme

Fundamentals of English Literary Elements

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Fundamentals of English Literary Elements

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