Literary Terms Test

Logical conclusion based on the reader's background knowledge and text clues

• Personification
• Symbolism
• Inference
• Metaphor

The moral or message readers should learn from the story  (Does the character learn something or change?  How is conflict resolved?)

• Climax
• Key Detail
• Conflict
• Theme

How the text makes the reader feel (Ex. Peaceful, eerie, humorous, sad)

• description
• mood
• analysis
• tone

A group of lines in a poem that look like a paragraph

• speaker
• stanza
• rhythm
• onomatopoeia

Words that may not literally mean what they say

• figurative language
• alliteration
• anecdote
• denotative meaning

People, animals, or creatures in a story or drama

• narrator
• personification
• characters
• exposition

The voice that tells the story

• narrator
• hyperbole
• conflict
• chronological

Problem the character must resolve

• theme
• antagonist
• protagonist
• conflict

Uses "I" and is usually the main character in the story

• 1st person point of view
• 2nd person point of view
• 3rd person point of view
• biography

Comparison of unlike things that uses "like" "as" or "than" (Ex. This room is like an oven.)

• idiom
• metaphor
• personification
• simile