Literary Elements
28 Questions
| Total Attempts: 111
This quiz involves the 28 most important literary elements.
Questions and Answers
- 1.The ___________ is the main idea or message of a poem, story, or novel.
- 2.The _________ is something that represents something else
- 3.The _________ is the growing anticipation the reader feels while awaiting the climax.
- 4.The ________ is a figure of speech using like or as.
- 5.The _______ is when the narrator is a person in the story
- 6.The _________ is the central character in a literary work.
- 7.The ________ is when the narrator reveals the thoughts of only one character.
- 8.The _____ is when the author gives human characteristics to animals, objects, or forces of nature.
- 9.The ________ is when a figure of speech compares two or more things
- 10.The _____ is the all knowing of the narrator of a story.
- 11.The ___ is when the narrator hints at events that will happen later in the story.
- 12.The ___ is a literary device in which an earlier episode, conversation or event is inserted into the story.
- 13.The _____ is a conversation between two or more characters.
- 14.The ____ is a struggle with an outside force.
- 15.The ____ is a struggle within the mind of a character
- 16.The _____ is the point of greatest emotional intensity
- 17.The _____ is when the author makes direct statements about a character's traits
- 18.The ____ is when a character only has only has one characteristic
- 19.The ____ is when the author uses actions, words, or other character's words to describe a character.
- 20.The ______ is a character that changes through the course of a story.
- 21.The ____ shows varied and contradictory traits
- 22.The _____ is a character that does not change through the course of a story
- 23.The ______ is the mood or emotional quality of work
- 24.The _____ is a person or force in society or nature that opposes the protangonist
- 25.The ____ is the introduction of characters and initial conflicts
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