Literary Terms Quizs

The perspective from which the events in a story, poem, or play are told

• Point of view

• Narrative style

• Character perspective

• Theme

affect

• influence

• ignore

• create

• destroy

Effect

• Impact

• Cause

• Result

• Influence

When the author interrupts the normal order of events by presenting an earlier moment in time, usually through a character's memories.

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• Cliffhanger

• Prologue

Writing that appeals to one or more of the senses

• Imagery

• Sensory language

• Figurative language

• Descriptive language

The narrator of a poem

• Speaker

• Author

• Character

• Reader

The structure of a passage or section of a passage

• Chronological structure

• Cause-and-effect structure

• Compare-and-contrast structure

• Descriptive structure

The way the author makes the reader feel through certain words or details

• Tone

• Mood

• Theme

• Style

The writer's position on an issue or problem

• Assertion

• Claim

• Argument

• Statement

The central idea, message, or moral of a story, poem, or play

• Plot

• Theme

• Character

• Setting