This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Elements > Elements Of Literature – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Elements Of Literature Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Someone caught in a blizzard is an example of Person v. A) Nature. B) Society. C) Person. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nature. 2. A solitary speech in which is the character is speaking to himself or herself. A) Dialogue. B) Monologue. C) Soliloquy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Soliloquy. 3. When the opposite event or situation occurs than what the reader or audience would expect, it is called A) Allusion. B) Irony. C) Suspense. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 4. What is the emotional highpoint of a story? A) Resolution. B) Climax. C) Exposition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Climax. 5. A ..... character changes; a ..... character stays the same. A) Dynamic; static. B) Round; static. C) Round; flat. D) Flat; dynamic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dynamic; static. 6. The reason for writing A) Conflict. B) Genre. C) Author's Purpose. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Author's Purpose. 7. The theme of a literary work is best described as- A) What happens in the work. B) The message or lesson in the work. C) The topic or subject. D) The time and place of the action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The message or lesson in the work. 8. What is exposition? A) The conflict of the story. B) The end of the story. C) Where character, setting, and situation are introduced. D) Events that happen because of the climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Where character, setting, and situation are introduced. 9. An apple can be symbolic of ..... A) Deliciousness. B) A fruit from a tree. C) Temptation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Temptation. 10. This is literary element is the perspective from which the reader will view the events in the story: A) Angle. B) Point of view. C) Dangle. D) Perspective. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Point of view. 11. Which word means ..... A story's main message or moral. A) Tone. B) Exposition. C) Conflict. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. 12. What is the setting in the story? A) London, England during WWII. B) Paris, France during WWI. C) Dublin, Ireland during a civil war. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dublin, Ireland during a civil war. 13. The message the author wants to get across is the A) Tone. B) Setting. C) Plot. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. 14. When in a story do complications happen? A) Exposition. B) Rising Action. C) Climax. D) Falling Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rising Action. 15. When and where a story takes place is called the ..... A) Introduction. B) Plot. C) Theme. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Setting. 16. The lesson that the story teaches is called the A) Moral. B) A-ha moment. C) Theme. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Moral. 17. What term refers to exaggeration for effect? A) Irony. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Anthropomorphism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 18. The outcome (end result) of a story. A) Falling Action. B) Climax. C) Resolution. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Resolution. 19. When this point of view is used in a story, the narrator is a character IN the story and the pronoun the narrator uses is "you": A) Objective. B) First Person. C) Limited omniscient. D) Second person. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Second person. 20. In which stage of a story is the main conflict resolved? A) Climax. B) Exposition. C) Denouement. D) Falling Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Climax. 21. A figure of speech that makes an implied comparison between two things. It does not use "like" or "as" . A) Simile. B) Irony. C) Tone. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 22. What are the two types of characterization? A) Internal and external. B) Positive and negative. C) Direct and indrect. D) Old and new. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Direct and indrect. 23. A problem in which the protagonist battles with environmental forces A) Man vs Man. B) Challenge. C) Conflict. D) Man vs Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Man vs Nature. 24. The theme of "love being more important than status or wealth" is from which story? A) Progress of poesy. B) Masque of Death. C) The Listeners. D) Cupid's Arrows. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cupid's Arrows. 25. Giving non-human objects human characteristics is called A) Foreshadowing. B) Personification. C) Dialogue. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 26. A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared in a phrase introduced by like or as. A) Conflict. B) Allusion. C) Theme. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 27. Which words means ..... A character who does not plan a large role in the story. A) Major character. B) Antagonist. C) Protagonist. D) Minor character. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Minor character. 28. The time, place, atmosphere of a story A) Exposition. B) Setting. C) Space. D) Environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Setting. 29. This is an example of an external conflict named ..... A) MAN vs MAN. B) MAN vs NATURE. C) MAN vs SOCIETY. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) MAN vs NATURE. 30. Theme must be ..... A) The main idea. B) Universal. C) Related to the story. D) One word. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Universal. 31. The character who works against the protagonist, often the "bad guy, " is the ..... A) Static character. B) Dynamic character. C) Protagonist. D) Antagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antagonist. 32. Which word means ..... Clues or hints about something that is going to happen later in the story. A) Foreshadow. B) Flashback. C) Conflict. D) Exposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadow. 33. POV:readers see and hear but must infer the thoughts and feelings of the character A) Objective. B) Omniscient. C) First person. D) Limited omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Objective. 34. This character provides the conflict in a story A) Antagonist. B) Flat. C) Protagonist. D) Dynamic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antagonist. 35. The main character, who the reader is routing for, is called the ..... A) Protagonist. B) Antagonist. C) Tritagonist. D) Protist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Protagonist. 36. The central idea of the story is ..... A) The time and place of the story. B) The action of the story. C) What the story is mostly about. D) The problem in the st. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) What the story is mostly about. 37. The inciting incident is the part of the story when A) Mini problems that increase the tension are explained. B) Crisis or conflict is exposed. C) Where everything changes for the antagonist. D) Characters are introduced. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crisis or conflict is exposed. 38. Author's attitude toward the subject or topic. A) Personification. B) Tone. C) Symbol. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 39. A character who frustrates the main character A) Static character. B) Protagonist. C) Antagonist. D) Dynamic character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antagonist. 40. The overall feeling of the story for the reader A) Mood. B) Rising action. C) Tone. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 41. This is the authors attitude toward the subject A) Purpose of Setting. B) Positive Correlation. C) Mood. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone. 42. The fictional people you meet in a drama are ..... A) The characters. B) The dialogue. C) The setting. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The characters. 43. In order to determine the theme, you must figure out the ..... first. A) Conflict. B) Central idea (what the story is mostly about). C) Antagonist. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Central idea (what the story is mostly about). 44. A problem the protagonist struggles with in his own mind A) Internal Resolution. B) Man vs Man. C) Internal Struggle. D) Internal Conflict:Man vs Self. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Internal Conflict:Man vs Self. 45. What is the inciting incident of "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" ? A) The death of Helen's sister. B) The fight between Helen's Dad and Sherlock. C) Helen coming to Sherlock for help. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Helen coming to Sherlock for help. 46. What is the resolution of "Those Three Wishes" ? A) Melinda Alice dies. B) Melinda Alice wishes she is dead. C) Melinda Alice fails the math test. D) Melinda Alice forgets to study for the math test. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Melinda Alice dies. 47. Fictional stories based on or around important people or events from the past. A) Realistic Fiction. B) Historical Fiction. C) Fantasy. D) Science Fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Historical Fiction. 48. ..... is a message about life or human nature that the writer's share with the readers. A) Theme. B) Genre. C) Symbol. D) Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 49. The Main Character In a Fiction Story Is The A) Antagonist. B) Protagonist. C) Character. D) Author's Favorite. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Protagonist. 50. Bam! The books hit the ground. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 51. Which part of the story is represented by this blue blob? A) Climax. B) Resolution. C) Exposition. D) Rising action. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exposition. 52. Deals with conflict against the way society feels about an issue A) Man vs. society. B) Man vs. self. C) Man vs. nature. D) Man vs. man. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Man vs. society. 53. Author's message in his/her literary work (What is the author trying to tell you? ); the main idea of a literary work; lesson that applies to life. A) Conflict. B) Exposition. C) Theme. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 54. "A short man in his early fifties sat behind a large wooden desk. He had a kind face, but sat rigidly in his chair." A) Direct Characterization. B) Indirect Characterization. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both. 55. The PROTAGONIST ..... A) Is the HERO of a story, novel, drama or other literary work, and as such, displays heroic qualities. B) Is always the "GOOD" guy in the story, novel, drama or other literary work. C) Is the MAIN character of a story, novel, drama or other literary work. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Is the MAIN character of a story, novel, drama or other literary work. 56. What is the term for a secondary strand in a plot? A) Backstory. B) Second Plot. C) Subplot. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subplot. 57. Directions telling characters how to speak or act;directions telling how sound, lighting, or props are used. A) Stage Directions. B) Elements of Drama. C) Act. D) Order. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stage Directions. 58. To give the most important parts of a text is also known as ..... A) Mood. B) Paraphrase. C) Metaphor. D) Summary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Summary. 59. A simple comparison using "like" or "as" ..... A) Symbolism. B) Analogy. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 60. What point of view is used in the passage above? A) Objective. B) Third person omniscient. C) Third person limited. D) First person. 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