Elements Of Literature Quiz 8 (20 MCQs)

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1. When the opposite event or situation occurs than what the reader or audience would expect, it is called

Correct Answer: B) Irony.

2. What is the emotional highpoint of a story?

Correct Answer: B) Climax.

3. A ..... character changes; a ..... character stays the same.

Correct Answer: C) Dynamic; static.

4. The reason for writing

Correct Answer: A) Author's Purpose.

5. Often times provides background information

Correct Answer: B) Flashback.

6. The theme of a literary work is best described as-

Correct Answer: B) The message or lesson in the work.

7. What is exposition?

Correct Answer: C) Where character, setting, and situation are introduced.

8. An apple can be symbolic of .....

Correct Answer: C) Temptation.

9. This is literary element is the perspective from which the reader will view the events in the story:

Correct Answer: A) Point of view.

10. Which word means ..... A story's main message or moral.

Correct Answer: C) Theme.

11. What is the setting in the story?

Correct Answer: C) Dublin, Ireland during a civil war.

12. The message the author wants to get across is the

Correct Answer: D) Theme.

13. When in a story do complications happen?

Correct Answer: B) Rising Action.

14. When and where a story takes place is called the .....

Correct Answer: B) Setting.

15. The lesson that the story teaches is called the

Correct Answer: B) Moral.

16. What term refers to exaggeration for effect?

Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole.

17. The son of the police chief is arrested for attempted burglary.

Correct Answer: A) Situational Irony.

18. The outcome (end result) of a story.

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":

Correct Answer: D) Second person.

20. In which stage of a story is the main conflict resolved?

Correct Answer: A) Climax.