Literary Terms Review

What is the second section of the typical plot in which the main character begins to grapple with the story’s main conflict?

• climax

• exposition

• rising action

• denouement

What is internal conflict?

• man versus man

• man versus self

• man versus nature

• man versus society

What's the point of view of narrators who are not involved with or as characters in the story?

• Third-person limited

• Third-person omniscient

• Third-person objective

• First person

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

• dynamic

• static

• round

• flat

Which literary term describes the feeling that a reader gets from the elements of the story?

• mood

• theme

• tone

• plot

What would we call a character who has only one defining trait

• minor character

• antagonist

• static

• flat

This literary term is similar to mood, but it's used to describe the author's attitude rather than the reader's emotions.

• foreshadowing

• exposition

• tone

• atmosphere

What is the device that uses a tangible thing to stand for an idea?

• theme

• tone

• foreshadowing

• symbolism

Plot is the word that we use to describe all of the action of the story, but what's the word that we use to describe what the story is really about, the underlying message?

• genre

• theme

• conflict

• fiction

Which of these forms of writing are considered to be in the general genre of prose?

• a student's informative essay

• a poem

• a memoir

• a play