Literary Elements Test

recounts or tells an event that happened before the story to fill in crucial backstory/details (an earlier scene)

• antagonist

• theme

• flashback

• paradox

When the outcome is the opposite or completely different from what was expected 

• situational irony

• theme

• flashback

• paradox

Action leading up to the climax

• situational irony

• rising action

• flashback

• paradox

An author directly tells about a character

• indirect characterization

• rising action

• flashback

• direct characterization

A conflict within one's own mind, man v. self

• indirect characterization

• external conflict

• internal conflict

• direct characterization

The main character of the story

• protagonist

• external conflict

• internal conflict

• antagonist

An outside narrator that tells the thoughts and feelings of all the characters

• 3rd person limited

• 3rd person objective

• 3rd person omniscient

• 1st person

When the audience knows something a character(s) doesn't

• verbal irony

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

• 1st person

An educated guess using evidence from the text and our prior knowledge

• verbal irony

• theme

• inference

• tone

The beginning of a story that tells about the characters and the initial conflict.  

• falling action

• climax

• rising action

• exposition