Literary Elements Vocabulary Quiz

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. 

• conflict
• simile
• allusion
• allegory

a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ).

• simile
• motif
• genre
• imagery

the place and time at which a play, novel, or film is represented as happening.

• tone
• motif
• simile
• setting

the narrator's position in relation to the story being told.

• point of view
• tone
• conflict
• motif

the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.

• tone
• motif
• genre
• theme

words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation.

• novella
• figurative language
• setting
• epigrap

a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.

• theme
• simile
• genre
• tone

a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson.

• parable
• genre
• simile
• epigraph

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. 

• motif
• metaphor
• setting
• theme

the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively; sensory details evoked by an author.

• genre
• simile
• imagery
• allegory