This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Elements Of Literature – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Elements Of Literature Quiz 5 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An educated guess or hypothesis A) Foreshadowing. B) Prediction. C) Conflict. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prediction. 2. The process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed through the character's speech, actions, appearance, thoughts. A) Foreshadowing. B) Indirect characterization. C) Direct characterization. D) Stage directions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indirect characterization. 3. Events that make up the action in a story. A) Plot. B) Mood. C) Theme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plot. 4. When words are used to convey something other than the literal meaning. A) Verbal Irony. B) Dramatic Irony. C) Situational Irony. D) Fehlbergian Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verbal Irony. 5. All of the techniques a writer uses to create, reveal, and develop his or her characters through actions and dialogue is called A) Plot development. B) Rising action. C) Rhetorical devices. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Characterization. 6. The lesson for the reader/author's purpose behind the story A) Setting. B) Climax. C) Imagery. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. 7. Which part of the plot creates tension and suspense? A) Rising action. B) Climax. C) Falling action. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rising action. 8. All of the following are symbolic in "The Masque" except A) Prince Prospero. B) The Ebony clock. C) The cup death drinks from. D) Red Death. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The cup death drinks from. 9. Which word means ..... The author's attitude toward the subject matter or toward the reader or audience. A) Tone. B) Point of View. C) Mood. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 10. Nonfiction expresses the writer's unique point of view. What is point of view? A) A writer's perspective about a subject. B) A writer's purpose for writing. C) The sequence of events. D) The place and time that the story occurs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A writer's perspective about a subject. 11. My dentist has really bad teeth. A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Irony. D) Onomateopeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 12. Object that represents something more A) Example. B) Imagery. C) Symbol. D) Treasure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbol. 13. "There was a loud crash that happened outside of her door. Samantha sat straight up in bed. The sound happened again" is an example of A) 3rd Person Objective. B) 3rd Person Omniscient. C) 3rd Person Limited. D) 2nd Person. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3rd Person Objective. 14. A reference to a famous person, place, event, or work of literature is known as a(n) A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Illusion. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 15. Associating human characteristics with non-human objects A) Humanizing. B) Personification. C) Figurative Language. D) Literary Element. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 16. When setting, point of view, and main characters are introduced A) Rising action. B) Exposition. C) Initial incident. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exposition. 17. In "The Masque of Red Death" , the attitude of Prince Prospero and his revelers toward those outside the abbey was A) Sympathetic. B) Indifferent. C) Benevolent. D) Hostile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indifferent. 18. The underlying message of the story. A) Point of View. B) Theme. C) Conflict. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 19. Hints or clues as to what will happen later in the plot A) Mood. B) Personification. C) Point of view. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foreshadowing. 20. An ..... is a brief description of the high points of a person's life. A) Autobiographical sketch. B) Talk. C) Speech. D) Essay. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Autobiographical sketch. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesElements Of Literature Quiz 1Elements Of Literature Quiz 2Elements Of Literature Quiz 3Elements Of Literature Quiz 4Elements Of Literature Quiz 6Elements Of Literature Quiz 7Elements Of Literature Quiz 8Elements Of Literature Quiz 9Elements Of Literature Quiz 10Elements Of Literature Quiz 11 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books