Literary Content Vocabulary Quiz

When you say something but don’t really mean what you say! Example: It is raining cats and dogs. (It is raining really hard.)

• Theme

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Idiom

When you compare two things without using like or as. Example: Her room is a pig pen.

• Theme

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Idiom

When you give a human like quality to something that is not a human. Example: The leaves danced in the wind.

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Theme

The lifelong lesson that you can put in your heart to make your life better.

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Theme

Pictures

• Illustrations

• Mood

• Character

• Setting

A feeling

• Illustrations

• Mood

• Character

• Setting

The who or what in the story.

• Illustrations

• Mood

• Character

• Setting

Where and when the story takes place

• Setting

• Character

• Mood

• Illustrations

A word to describe the character deep down in their heart.

• Motivation

• Character Trait

• Feeling

• Plot

Why the character did the action.

• Plot

• Feeling

• Character Trait

• Motivation