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Literary Concepts Test
Match the term to its definition: character, dialect, mood, dialogue,
setting, genre, flashback, omniscient, foreshadowing, imagery, irony,
figurative language, antagonist, point of view, first person, third person,
internal conflict, external conflict, climax, resolution, theme, fiction,
nonfiction, protagonist, plot
1. ____________________________the words the character speaks aloud
2. ____________________________writing that tells about real people,
places, and things
3. ____________________________the narrator is an all knowing outsider
who can enter the minds of one or all of the characters
4. ____________________________the significant pattern of action in a
story, novel, or play
5. ____________________________a message about life or human
nature that is complicated by a literary work
6. ____________________________a struggle within a character
7. ____________________________a contrast between what is expected
and what actually exists or happens
8. ____________________________loose ends are tied up and the story is
brought to a close
9. ____________________________a person, an animal, or an imaginary
creature that takes part in the action of a literary work
10. ____________________________when the narrator is a character in
the story and used pronouns such as I, me and we
11. ____________________________the perspective from which a story is
told
12. ____________________________the main character who is involved
in the story’s conflict
13. ____________________________ an interruption of the action to present
events that took place at an earlier time
14. ____________________________the turning point or the point of
maximum interest
15. ____________________________expressions that are not literally
true – used to relate fresh and original descriptions
16. ____________________________a type or category of literature
17. ____________________________a character struggles against another
person or some outside force
18. ____________________________a writer provides hints that suggest
future events in a story
19. ____________________________form of language that is spoken in a
particular place or by a particular group of people
20. ____________________________the time or place of action – may
include geographic location, historical period, season, time of day, and
customs and manners of a society
21. ____________________________the atmosphere or feeling that a
literary work conveys to readers
22. _____________________________ the narrator is not a character
telling the story – pronouns such as he, she, or it may be used
23. _____________________________a force working against the main
character; it may be another character, society, a force in nature, or
even a force within the main character
24. _____________________________prose writing that tells an
imaginary story
25. _____________________________words or phrases that appeal to the
reader’s five senses