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-End of Year Literary ReviewI. Match the following literary terms with their definitions. Record answers on the lines.1. ____ alliteration
a. conversation between characters
2. ____ antagonist
b. struggle between opposing forces
3. ____ protagonist
c. dictionary definition of a word
4. ____ static character
d. repetition of consonant sounds
5. ____ dynamic character
e. the main character in a story
6. ____ climax
f. one who changes/grows during the story
7. ____ conflict
g. set of ideas associated with a word
8. ____ connotation
h. one who does not change
9. ____ denotation
i. character in conflict with main character
10. ____ dialogue
j. high point in the action of a plot
-Match the following literary terms with their definitions. Record answers on the lines.11. ____ drama
a. author’s use of clues as to what happens later
12. ____ exposition
b. takes place within the mind of a character
13. ____ external conflict
c. tells about imaginary characters and events
14. ____ internal conflict
d. humorous, rhyming, five-line poem
15. ____ fiction
e. scene that interrupts sequence to relate events from the past
16. ____ non-fiction
f. two consecutive lines of verse with end rhymes
17. ____ flashback
g. introduction of a story when characters and setting are told
18. ____ foreshadowing
h. when a character struggles with an outside force
19. ____ couplet
i. tells about real people, places, objects, or events
20. ____ limerick
j. story written to be performed by actors
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-Match the following literary terms with their definitions. Record answers on the lines.21. ____ flat character
a. use of words that imitate sounds
22. ____ round character
b. writing that tells a story or act of telling a story
23. ____ metaphor
c. lesson taught by a literary work
24. ____ moral
d. nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
25. ____ narration
e. giving animals human characteristics or attributes
26. ____ onomatopoeia
f. fully developed character who exhibits many traits
27. ____ personification
g. one-sided and often stereotypical character
28. ____ anthropomorphism
h. figure of speech making comparison using like or as
29. ____ simile
i. one of the three major types of literature (along w/ prose & drama)
30. ____ poetry
j. figure of speech in which something is described as though it
were something else
-Match the following literary terms with their definitions. Record answers on the lines.31. ____ plot
a. describe how the work is to be performed or staged
32. ____ persuasion
b. feeling of anxious uncertainty about outcome of events
33. ____ point of view
c. ordinary form of written language (one of three major types of
34. ____ prose
d. outcome of the conflict in a plot
35. ____ repetition
e. time and place of action/when & where of story
36. ____ resolution
f. attempts to make reader/listener adopt a set of beliefs
37. ____ rhyme scheme
g. perspective (vantage point) from which a story is told
38. ____ setting
h. use, more than once, of any element of language (sound, word, phrase)
39. ____ stage directions
i. sequence of events of a story
40. ____ suspense
j. pattern of rhymes in poetry
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-Match the following literary terms with their definitions. Record answers on the lines.-
41. ____ symbol
a. discusses or interprets what is of value in literature
42. ____ tone
b. writing that creates a vivid picture of someone or something
43. ____ mood
c. writing that informs or explains (e.g., a how-to or compare/contrast)
44. ____ theme
d. blends imagination or ideas to present your own view of world
45. ____ description
e. events after exposition that lead to the climax of a story
46. ____ expository
f. writer’s attitude toward his audience and/or subject
47. ____ response to literature
g. feeling created by a literary work or passage
48. ____ creative writing
h. events after climax that lead to resolution of story
49. ____ falling action
i. anything that stands for or represents something else
50. ____ rising action
j. central message, concern, or purpose in a literary work
II. Multiple choice. Choose and record the correct answer.51. The Wizard of Oz is from what genre (type of literature)?
a. poetry
b. prose
c. drama
d. song
52. The repetition of consonant sounds in the Wicked Witch of the West’s name is an example of ____.
a. assonance
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b. alliteration
c. onomatopoeia
d. rhyme scheme
The talking trees, talking China dolls, and talking scarecrow are examples of _____________.
a. onomatopoeia
b. personification
c. anthropomorphism
d. alliteration
54. The talking cowardly lion, talking mice, and talking stork are examples of __________________.
a. onomatopoeia
b. personification
c. anthropomorphism
d. alliteration
55. The buzzing of the bees and the crashing of the tin man against rocks are examples of __________.
a. onomatopoeia
b. personification
c. anthropomorphism
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d. alliteration
56. “There’s no place like home” is a ____________ of The Wizard of Oz.
a. mood
b. tone
c. theme
d. motive
57. Dorothy is a ________________ character. (choose two)
a. flat
b. round
c. dynamic
d. static
58. The Wicked Witch of the West is a ________________ character. (choose two)
a. flat
b. round
c. dynamic
d. static
59. What is the point of view of The Wizard of Oz?
a. 1st person
b. 3rd person limited c. 3rd person omniscient
d. anonymous
60. Two of Dorothy’s major external conflicts are ___________________.
a. the Wicked Witch of the West
c. leaving her friends at the end of the story
b. missing her aunt & uncle
d. physically trying to get home
61. In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the protagonist’s internal conflict is _____________.
a. the police
b. insanity
c. the old man
d. the neighbor
62. In “The Raven,” the repetition of consonant sounds (e.g., “While I nodded, nearly napping”)
a. assonance
b. rhyme scheme
c. alliteration
d. theme
63. The pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines in “The Raven” is an example of ______________.
a. assonance
b. rhyme scheme
c. alliteration
d. theme
64. Rhymes within lines in “The Raven” are examples of _________________.
a. rhyme scheme
b. internal rhyme
c. alliteration
d. assonance
65. Daddy-Long-Legs is primarily told from what point of view?
a. 1st person
b. 3rd person limited c. 3rd person omniscient
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66. Judy is an example of a _________ character. (choose two)
a. flat
b. round
c. dynamic
d. static
67. When Judy lists all of Julia’s connections to famous people, she is exaggerating greatly. An
exaggeration is _________________.
a. hyperbole
b. hypochondriac
c. hyperexaggeration
d. pseudotruth
68. During the ____________ of Daddy-Long-Legs, the reader meets the characters and learns the
setting of the story.
a. exposition
b. rising action
c. climax
d. resolution
69. During the ____________ of Daddy-Long-Legs, the reader learns who Daddy really is.
a. exposition
b. rising action
c. climax
d. resolution
70. The _________ of Daddy-Long-Legs is that a young orphan is afforded a chance to go to college by
an anonymous benefactor. The events during the next four years help make up the story.
a. plan
b. plot
c. climax
d. falling action
c. poetry
d. drama
71. Daddy-Long-Legs is what kind of prose?
a. fiction
b. non-fiction
72. A Night to Remember is a factual account of the sinking of the Titanic. What kind of prose is it?
a. fiction
b. non-fiction
c. poetry
d. drama
73. Saying that if there is a crack in a submersible, one could be squashed like a tomato is what kind of
figurative language?
a. hyperbole
b. metaphor
c. simile
d. irony
74. The fact that Titanic would’ve stayed afloat if she had hit the iceberg straight-on and the fact that
this was supposed to be the captain’s last journey are examples of ____________.
a. hyperbole
b. metaphor
c. simile
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d. irony