Mr. Bailey's Literary Terms Quiz

 

How well would you do in Mr. Bailey's class?  The quiz below represents a sampling of the literary terms we learn in 7th and 8th grade literature classes at Saint Ursula School.  How many of the answers do you know?

1. What do you call it when an author gives hints or clues about things that will happen later in a story?


2. What do we call it when an author uses one object to stand for or represent another one?


3. "Mr. Bailey buys bacon before breakfast" is an example of which literary device?


4. What type of character's personality or beliefs change over the course of a story?


5. What do we call outdated language that was used in the past, but is no longer commonly used?


6. A character whose character traits are the opposite of another's would be called a:


7. What do we call the main character of a story who the action follows?


8. How many elements are there in a plot diagram?


9. A fat, smelly man spends all of his days on his couch eating potato chips, smoking cigarettes, and watching football. A skinny, handsome man spends his days working out, eating healthy, and going to church. The fat man lives to be 97 and marries a supermodel. The skinny man dies at 23 of a heart attack. What is this story an example of?


10. What is the rhyme scheme of every one of Shakespeare's sonnets?


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