Literary Elements in Fiction

What is the method a writer uses to reveal the personality of a character in a literary work?

• plot

• exposition

• characterization

• theme

The part of the story where the characters are introduced, setting is described, and conflict begins to unfold is called ______.

• Resolution

• Complications

• Climax

• Exposition

What refers to a writer’s use of hints that suggests events that will occur later in a story?

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• Irony

• Tone

Setting is the ____ and ____ in which a story takes place.

• Time and Character

• Time and Place

• Place and Location

• Fiction and non fiction

Purpose means...

• A type of sea mammal

• The reason the author wrote the piece.

• The reason the author chose the title.

• A type of writing

What is character?

• A person or animal who takes part in the action of the story.

• An animal who has the ability to speak.

• The reason for dialogue in a story.

• A person who writes the story.

Who is the hero or central character of a literary work?

• the "good guy"

• antagonist

• villain

• protagonist

What is internal conflict?

• man vs. man

• man vs. self

• man vs. nature

• man vs. society

What type of character undergoes a change from the beginning of the story to the end?

• dynamic

• protagonist

• static

• antagonist

A character who undergoes no change from the beginning to the end of a story is what type?

• dynamic

• static

• round

• flat