Literary Terms & Devices Quiz

What is the term for ideas that are philosophical and emotional, not concrete or tangible?

• Abstraction

• Allegory

• Alliteration

• Allusion

What is a story in which the characters and their actions represent general truths about human conduct?

• Abstraction

• Allegory

• Alliteration

• Allusion

What is the term for the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words in a sentence or a line of poetry?

• Abstraction

• Allegory

• Alliteration

• Allusion

What is a reference to a well-known fictional, mythological, or historical person, place, or event, outside the story?

• Abstraction

• Allegory

• Alliteration

• Allusion

What is a faulty, unclear expression, or a poetic device which deliberately uses a word or expression to indicate two or more distinct references, attitudes or feelings?

• Ambiguity

• Analogy

• Antagonist

• Antithesis

What is exploring a topic by explaining it in terms of another seemingly unlike but more commonplace and less complicated object or experience?

• Ambiguity

• Analogy

• Antagonist

• Antithesis

Who is the character or force in opposition to the protagonist?

• Ambiguity

• Analogy

• Antagonist

• Antithesis

What is a strong contrast shown through the juxtaposition of opposing words, phrases, clauses, sentences, or ideas?

• Ambiguity

• Analogy

• Antagonist

• Antithesis

What is the term for the speaker addressing an absent person or the dead, or an inanimate object, as if present?

• Apostrophe

• Aside

• Assertion

• Assonance

What is a remark made by one character in the presence of others, but assumed not to be heard by them?

• Apostrophe

• Aside

• Assertion

• Assonance