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What is a stereotype?
a) a widely held image or idea of a particular type of person or thing
b) a round character
c) a static character
d) a persuasion technique

What is imagery?
a) A section of a poem similar to a paragraph
b) The use of words to imitate sounds
c) The use of vivid descriptions to make a picture in your minde
d) Repeating the same beginning consonant sounds

What is personification?
a) Giving human characteristics to something non human
b) A sound word
c) A comparison
d) A stanza

What is a stanza?
a) Figurative language
b) Like a paragraph in poetry
c) The last line of a poem
d) Rhyme scheme

Choose the idiom.
a) Human characteritics
b) He is as fast as a cheetah.
c) Boo, bang, buzz
d) I drank a cup of Joe this morning.

What is irony?
a) Sound word like buzz, bang, and boo.
b) A comparison using like or as
c) The opposite of what should have happened
d) An exaggeration

What is onomatopoeia?
a) A comparison using like or as
b) Sound words like buzz, bang, and boom
c) An exaggeration
d) The opposite of what is meant

What is an exposition?
a) The climax
b) The resolution
c) Background information
d) Suspense

What is foreshadowing?
a) A hint that something will happen
b) The ending of a story
c) Irony
d) an exaggerration

Who is the antagonist?
a) The bad guy
b) The hero
c) The main character
d) The narrator

What is the climax of a story?
a) The ending
b) The beginning
c) The exposition
d) The turning point

Who is the protagonist of a story?
a) Bad guy
b) Enemy
c) Main character
d) Unimportant character

What type of conflict is internal?
a) man vs. nature
b) man vs. society
c) man vs. man
d) man vs. self

What clue words help you know it's 1st person point of view?
a) he, she , they, them
b) You, he, she, it, we, they
c) I, me, my, we, us
d) They, them, friends

What is chronological order?
a) The order in which the story occurs
b) The figurative language in a story
c) The climax of the story
d) Cause and effect

What is 3rd person limited point of view?
a) The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of 1 character.
b) The narrator is in the story.
c) The narrator knows everyone's thoughts and feelings.
d) The narrator doesn't know anyone's thought and feelings.

What is the theme?
a) Resolution
b) Big picture, lesson learned, moral, message
c) Figurative language
d) Climax

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