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CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL.-LANGUAGE ARTS.-

LITERARY TERMS. EXAM QUESTIONS

Actual Qs and Ans - Expert-Verified Explanation -Guaranteed passing score -33 Questions and Answers

-Format: Multiple-choice / Flashcard

Question 1: inference

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a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.Example - see paper

Question 2: Ambiguity

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The situation where a word or phrase has more than one meaning through vague word choice or description It is cool in here. Sarah gave a bath to her dog wearing a pink shirt.

Question 3: rising action

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All the events leading up to the climax The part of the plot that begins to occur as soon as the conflict is introduced. The rising action adds complications to the conflict and increases reader interest.

Question 4: climax

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A high point of interest or suspense.The point of greatest emotional intensity, interest, or suspense in the plot of a narrative. The climax typically comes at the turning point in a story or drama.

Question 5: antagonist

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A character or force in conflict with the main character.Non-character entities can be antagonistic (settings or events) for example, Nature in Moana

Question 6: Three types of irony

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Verbal Irony, occurs when a writer or speaker says one thing, but really mans something completely different.(sarcasm).

Question 7: Cliché

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An overused comparison or saying. (lost track of time; better safewt than sorry; the grass is always greener on the other side

Question 8: plot development

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see picture in notes

Question 9: falling action

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Events that follow the climax ad lead to the resolution. The action that typically follows the climax and reveals its results.

Question 10: character

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A character is a person or an animal that takes part in the action of a literary work.

Question 11: Allusion

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A reference to something (a book, a movie, a poem, a speech, etc) within a separate piece of literature (I've been impaled - from Frozen; Dishonor on you, dishonor on your cowd, dishonor on your whole family! - from Mulan)

Question 12: metaphor

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narrator

Question 13: Allegory

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A form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity, greed or envy. Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.

Question 14: Resolution

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The ending, in which a general insight or change is conveyed. The resolution is the part of the plot that concludes the falling action by revealing or suggesting the outcome of the conflict.

Question 15: imagery

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Description that appeals to one or more of the five senses: sight, sound, smell, taste, touch

Question 16: Exposition

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Introduces the characters, settig and basic situation. The 'introduction." (Beauty and the Beast - "Once upon a time"; Star Wars - "In a Galazy far, far away"

Question 17: external conflict

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The main character struggles against some outside force such as another character nature, society, or fate.Man vs. man; man vs nature; man vs society; man vs fate

Question 18: foreshadowing

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the author's use of clues to hint at------- later in the story. Writers us it to build their readers' expectations and to create suspense. This is used to help readers prepare for what is to come.

Question 19: flashback

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a literary device in which an earlier episode, conversation, or event is inserted into the sequence of events. It interrupts the present action of the plot to flash backward and tell what happened at an earlier time. Often they are presented as a memory of the narrator or of another character.

Question 20: plot

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The sequence of events in a literary work.The first event causes the second, the second causes the third, and so forth. Like the links of a chain the events are interconnected.

Question 21: Character Types

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static = a character who remains the same dynamic = a character who changes round = a major character in a work of fiction who encounters conflict and is changed by it. Round characters tend to be more fully developed and described than flat, or minor characters.flat = a literary character whose personality can be defined by one or two traits and does no change in the course of the story.

Question 22: mood/atmosphere

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Mood or atmosphere, is the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. Writer's use many devices to create mood, including images, dialogue setting, and plot. Often, a writer creates a mood at the beginning of a work and then sustains the mood throughout. Sometimes, however, the mood of the work changes dramatically.

Question 23: internal conflict

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A character in conflict with himself or herself.Man vs Himself

Question 24: foil

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A character who provides a contrast to another character (Gaston and the Beast, Scar and Mufasa, Sherlock and Watson)