This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Elements Of Literature – Quiz 29 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Elements Of Literature Quiz 29 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. If I were to analyze a character's diction, then I would pay attention to ..... A) What they are wearing. B) What they are saying. C) What they are doing. D) Nothing. That's not a thing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) What they are saying. 2. What is the name for the people, animals, or things participating in a story? A) Characters. B) Setting. C) Plot elements. D) Personnel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Characters. 3. A contradiction between the actual outcome and the expected outcome ..... Also, to mean the opposite of what you say refers to what? A) Idiom. B) Irony. C) Metaphor. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 4. Plot:What provides the background to start the story? A) Complication. B) Exposition. C) Climax. D) Crisis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exposition. 5. What happens in the falling action? A) You are introduced to the conflict. B) The setting is described in detail. C) Events begin to calm down after the climax. D) It is the exact same as the rising action. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Events begin to calm down after the climax. 6. A look back to an earlier event ..... A) Flashback. B) Foreshadowing. C) Theme. D) Rising action. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flashback. 7. What are the three parts to the rhetorical triangle? A) Reading, writing, arithmetic. B) Reader, writer, text. C) Narrator, protagonist, antagonist. D) Author, student, teachder. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reader, writer, text. 8. Theme should NOT be A) Expressible in a complete sentence with a subject and predicate. B) As general as can be; employ absolutes whenever possible. C) Based on the data of the story itself. D) Stated without using names of characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) As general as can be; employ absolutes whenever possible. 9. A reference to another work of literature or event in history A) Idiom. B) Connotation. C) Denotation. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 10. The quality of a story that leaves the reader excited or nervous about what may happen in the future (on the edge of your seat) is called A) Personification. B) Allusion. C) Irony. D) Suspense. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Suspense. 11. Which genre is ..... Similar to comic books, use sequential art to tell a story. A) Nonfiction. B) Autobiography. C) Graphic Novel. D) Biography. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Graphic Novel. 12. The passage above describes an example of A) Dramatic irony. B) Analytical irony. C) Situational irony. D) Figurative irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Situational irony. 13. Words and phrases that appeal to the reader's five senses are called A) Style. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 14. When an author gives us hints about what is to come in the future so that we can make predictions, we call that:..... A) A flashback. B) Foreshadowing. C) An internal conflict. D) An external conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 15. An unreliable narrator ..... A) Can be trusted to tell the truth. B) Cannot be trusted to tell the truth. C) Is often insane. D) Is often insane and therefore cannot be trusted to tell the truth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Is often insane and therefore cannot be trusted to tell the truth. 16. The implied meaning of the word that may be different than the dictionary definition. A) Denotation. B) Diction. C) Connotation. D) Citation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotation. 17. The narrator is a character in the story who describes things from their own perspective. A) 1st person P.O.V. B) 2nd person P.O.V. C) 3rd person P.O.V. D) Dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1st person P.O.V. 18. Which genre is ..... Stories about science, technology, and the future. A) Historical Fiction. B) Nonfiction. C) Realistic Fiction. D) Science Fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Science Fiction. 19. Anna describes the events that happen in the beginning, middle and end of the book she just read. This means that she is describing the ..... A) Setting. B) Theme. C) Conflict. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plot. 20. In a story, a character struggling is a A) Protagonist. B) Metaphor. C) Flashback. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conflict. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesElements Of Literature Quiz 1Elements Of Literature Quiz 2Elements Of Literature Quiz 3Elements Of Literature Quiz 4Elements Of Literature Quiz 5Elements Of Literature Quiz 6Elements Of Literature Quiz 7Elements Of Literature Quiz 8Elements Of Literature Quiz 9Elements Of Literature Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books