7th grade Literary Terms Test - Unit 1

1. _______ - voice that speaks or narrates a literary work

• speaker

• audience

• character

• author

2. _______ - a struggle that takes place within a character

• internal conflict

• external conflict

• rising action

• falling action

3. _______ - a person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work

• character

• setting

• plot

• theme

4. _______ - a type of writing that portrays a character, object, or scene

• description

• narration

• exposition

• persuasion

5. _______ - the difference between appearance and reality

• irony

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

6. _______ - conversation involving two or more characters

• dialogue

• monologue

• soliloquy

• aside

_______ language that creates a concrete representation of an object or experience

• imagery

• irony

• hyperbole

• metaphor

8. _______ - a struggle between two or more people or things in a literary work

• external conflict

• metaphor

• setting

• protagonist

9. _______ - the combination of images within a literary work

• image

• metaphor

• theme

• plot

_______ a series of events related to a central conflict

• plot

• setting

• character

• theme