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Duplicate of Activity 2.2 - Short Story Elements
Duplicate of Activity 2.2 - Short Story Elements
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Review of literary terms commonly used to study short stories
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Which of the following is not an example of figurative language?
metaphor
personification
hyperbole
denotation
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Point of view is...
how you see the world
using "I" and "you"
the storyteller's identity
the narrator's perspective
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What is the plot point of greatest intensity?
climax
conflict
resolution
falling action
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How is theme best defined?
the story's main idea
the story's message about life
the moral of the story
the story's topic
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Which of the following plot elements suggests clues of events to come?
foreshadowing
in medias res
flashback
motif
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what is stated vs. what is meant
dramatic irony
verbal irony
situational irony
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This type of language means exactly what it says. Only denotation matters.
literal language
figurative language
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An allusion is...
a symbol
an optical trick
a reference to something
a common saying
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What is another literary term meaning resolution?
falling action
conclusion
denouement
the end
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Which of the following terms refers to a story's main character?
antagonist
tritagonist
protagonist
deuteragonist
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Which part of a story's plot introduces the characters and background information?
introduction
explanation
beginning
exposition
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For which plot term is "complications" a synonym?
climax
exposition
rising action
falling action
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This literary term means the reversal of expectations.
irony
surprise
flashback
plot twist
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What part of the plot goes in the starburst shape in the middle of the diagram?
conflict
anticlimax
climax
complications
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What type of irony is used when the audience knows something a character doesn't know?
verbal irony
dramatic irony
situational irony
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Imagery...
appeals to the five senses
has nothing to do with images
allows the reader visualize the story
enables the reader to see the action in the mind's eye
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Which point of view includes the thoughts of all characters?
first person
third-person limited
third-person omniscient
