Literary Terms

Question 1

1st person pov

Answer 1

The narrator is a character in the story
(I, me, we, or our)

Question 2

3rd person limited

Answer 2

Narrator using pronouns that ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘it’ to convey the thoughts and feelings of one character

Question 3

3rd person omniscient

Answer 3

A method in storytelling in which the author knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters

Question 4

Conflict

Answer 4

A struggle between opposing forces

Question 5

External conflict

Answer 5

Struggle between character and outside force
Character vs. society
Character vs. character
For example, Raymond vs society or hazel vs gretchen

Question 6

Internal conflict

Answer 6

The struggle between opposing needs, desires, and emotions within a single character

Question 7

Plot

Answer 7

The story’s central idea

Question 8

Exposition

Answer 8

Background information

Question 9

Rising action

Answer 9

A series of events starting with the conflict and ending with the climax

Question 10

Climax

Answer 10

The most exciting part of a story

Question 11

Falling actions

Answer 11

Events after the climax, Leading to the resolution

Question 12

Resolution

Answer 12

The end of the story

Question 13

Foreshadowing

Answer 13

The author hinting to upcoming events

Question 14

Symbolism

Answer 14

Where an object represents an idea

Question 15

Irony

Answer 15

The use of words to convey a meaning that is its opposite of its literal meaning

Question 16

Situational irony

Answer 16

A discrepancy between the expected result and the actual result

Question 17

Verbal irony

Answer 17

A person says or writes a thing and means the other/opposite

Question 18

Dramatic irony

Answer 18

The audience knows whats happening the the characters don’t

Question 19

Setting

Answer 19

Time and place in a story

Question 20

Characters

Answer 20

People / things in the story

Question 21

Protagonist

Answer 21

Main character, ‘good guy’

Question 22

Antagonist

Answer 22

Character who opposes protagonist, ‘bad guy’

Question 23

Static character

Answer 23

A character that does not change throughout the story

Question 24

Dynamic character

Answer 24

A character who grows, learns or changes as a result of the story

Question 25

Round character

Answer 25

A character who demonstrates complexity or changes

Question 26

Flat character

Answer 26

A character who demonstrates no complexity or change

Question 27

Sea Devil setting, characters, plot

Answer 27

set in Florida bay, late night, September Manta ray (flat), fisherman (round, dynamic) Fisherman goes to catch fish, catches great “sea devil” manta rays, fights for his life, narrowly escapes, and realizes this is what fish have to suffer and will never kill them again

Question 28

Sea devil epiphany

Answer 28

The man realized all he endured with the manta ray is what a fish, more specifically a mullet, has to endure and decides he will “do no more casting alone at night.”

Question 29

Lady or the Tiger setting, characters, plot

Answer 29

Set in great kings arena King (static character), princess , princess’s lover, fair maiden (flat character) A man imprisoned after the king finds out he is having an affair with his daughter. The man is put out in the arena. there is a tiger behind one door and a fair maiden between the other. He looks at the princess, who knows which is behind each door, and she nudges him towards one. We do not know which door it was, because she could have killed him out of jealousy or picked the princess to spare hi. “That is— the lady or the tiger?’

Question 30

Lamb to the slaughter characters, setting, plot

Answer 30

Set in grocery store, Maloney house Mrs. Maloney, Mr. Patrick Maloney, detective, grocer, police officers After he admits he wants to divorce, mr Maloney is murdered by his loving wife, ms Maloney. Ms Maloney killed him with a pork chop with she then cooked. She carefully planned out her escapes and the cops had no clue that they were eating the exact lamb chop with mr. Maloneys dead name on it.

Question 31

Tell tale heart characters, setting, plot

Answer 31

Old man, crazy killer, police officers Set in old mans home A crazy man wants to kill an old man because of his ‘vulture eye’. He successfully does after watching him sleep for nights. He buries the body under the floorboards. He did this because he could hear the mans heartbeat. When the cops arrived he began to hear the heartbeat again, and admitted out of irritation.

Question 32

A retrieved reformation characters, setting, plot

Answer 32

Jimmy Valentine / Ralph D. Spencer, Ms. Annabel, May, Agatha, Annabel’s father, Annabels married sister, Ben Price

Question 33

Too soon a woman plot, characters, setting

Answer 33

Boy of 11, Mary, pa, Sarah, Elizabeth, uncle

Question 34

Sea devil theme

Answer 34

Treat others hows you wanna be treated

Question 35

Lady or the tiger theme

Answer 35

Don’t be selfish

Question 36

Lamb to the slaughter theme

Answer 36

Try hard, theres more than you thinl

Question 37

Tell-tale heart theme

Answer 37

What’s right and what’s wrong

Question 38

A retrieved reformation theme

Answer 38

Do whats right to forgive your past

Question 39

Raymonds run plot, characters, setting

Answer 39

Hazel / squeaky, Gretchen, Rosie, Mary Louise, Raymond, father Set on the track, at home, streets of a city Hazel protects her special brother from bullies and tries to beat Gretchen, a bully, in the track race but Raymond ends up being faster than both and she gives him the medal

Question 40

Raymonds run epiphany

Answer 40

Raymond is fast

Question 41

Raymonds run theme

Answer 41

Don’t judge a book by its cover

Question 42

Sea devil. Author.

Answer 42

Arthur Gordon

Question 43

Tell-Tale heart author

Answer 43

Edgar Allen poe

Question 44

Lamb to the slaughter author

Answer 44

Roald Dahl

Question 45

Lady or the tiger author

Answer 45

Frank Stockton

Question 46

A retrieved reformation author

Answer 46

O. Henry / william Sydney Porter

Question 47

Raymonds run author

Answer 47

Toni Cade Bambara

Question 48

Too soon a woman author

Answer 48

Dorothy M. Johnson