Lit Terms Test 1
30 Questions
| Total Attempts: 118
Questions and Answers
- 1.What is the conflict in a story called?
- A.
Exposition
- B.
Resolution
- C.
Climax
- 2.Where and when the story takes place is called what?
- A.
Exposition
- B.
Setting
- C.
Scene
- 3.The sequence of events, or what happens in a story is the?
- A.
Plot
- B.
Rising Action
- C.
Falling Action
- 4.Using information to arrive at a conclusion when the answer is not said directly is?
- A.
A guess
- B.
An inference
- C.
An approximation
- 5.When one thing is said to be another it is a?
- A.
Simile
- B.
Inference
- C.
Metaphor
- 6.The problem that must be solved or resolved is the?
- A.
The Crisis
- B.
The Conflict
- C.
The Resolution
- 7.What is going on in the life of the protagonist when we first meet him or her is?
- A.
The Exposition
- B.
The Plot
- C.
The Setting
- 8.The person, force, or thing that works against the main character (or Protagonist) is the?
- A.
Antagonist
- B.
Determinist
- C.
Resolutionist
- 9.The highest point of action in a play, when the main characters reveal their true selves?
- A.
Denouement
- B.
Climax
- C.
Conflict
- 10.Similes and metaphors are both comparisons.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 11.Similes are the stronger of the two comparisons.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 12.When the story reaches its resolution that the true character of the protagonist is seen.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 13.The antagonist in a story must always be another person.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 14.Drama is literature that is meant to be acted.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 15.A play is a literary work meant to be acted on a stage.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 16.Acts and scenes are how plays are divided up, much like chapters and lines in a novel or book.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 17.The conflict in “Hum It Again Jeremy” is external.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 18.An example of internal conflict is when Seth Dawson’s faced is smashed against the windshield of the Camaro in “On the Bridge.”
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 19.The theme and the plot of a literary work are basically the same thing.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 20.Events that occur after the climax are part of the.
- A.
Falling Action
- B.
Rising Action
- C.
Fading Action
- 21.The point in the story occurring near the end when the problem has been solved.
- A.
The ending
- B.
The Exposition
- C.
The Denouement
- 22.What terms mean the same thing?
- A.
Solution/resolution
- B.
Resolution/denouement
- C.
Exposition/resolution
- 23.A comparison between two different things using like or as.
- A.
Metaphor
- B.
Inference
- C.
Simile
- 24.The message or moral of a literary work.
- A.
Plot
- B.
Theme
- C.
Idea
- 25.Plot sequences or events that lead to the climax are considered to be?
- A.
Rising Action
- B.
Falling Action
- C.
Resolution
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