OSSLT OSSLT - Ontario Secondary School Literacy Understanding Narrative Texts

Question 1

What is the term for the sequence of events that make up a story?

Accepted Answer

Plot

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Theme

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Setting

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Tone

Question 2

Which story element describes the time and place in which the action occurs?

Accepted Answer

Setting

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Theme

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Conflict

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Mood

Question 3

What is the perspective from which a narrator tells a story called?

Accepted Answer

Point of view

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Tone

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Theme

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Mood

Question 4

What is the highest point of tension or turning point in a narrative called?

Accepted Answer

Climax

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Exposition

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Rising action

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Resolution

Question 5

A character who undergoes significant internal change over the course of a story is called a _____ character.

Accepted Answer

Dynamic

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Static

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Flat

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Minor

Question 6

Which literary device gives human characteristics to non-human objects or ideas?

Accepted Answer

Personification

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Simile

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Alliteration

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Hyperbole