Matching Literary Elements with Examples

This quote is an example of what point of view?

Eventually you ascend the stairs to the street. You wonder if it is possible to change in this life.

• 1st person point of view

• 2nd person point of view

• 3rd person limited point of view

• 3rd person omniscient point of view

This quote is an example of what point of view?

Oh great, thought Benita, annoyed. 

            What is wrong with her, thought Charlotte to herself.

            Not these two again! thought Mr. Trudeau.

• 1st person point of view

• 2nd person point of view

• 3rd person limited point of view

• 3rd person omniscient point of view

This quote demonstrates what literary element?

After the long run, he collapsed in the grass with tired and burning muscles. The grass tickled his skin and sweat cooled on his brow.

• internal conflict

• external conflict

• imagery

• tone

This example demonstrates what literary element?

Flegg trying to decide whether or not he should climb the gasometer.

• internal conflict

• external conflict

• imagery

• tone

This quote demonstrates what point of view?

 Timothy drove the car to school. He saw many of his friends standing around in a group. He wondered what they were doing.

• 1st person point of view

• 2nd person point of view

• 3rd person limited point of view

• 3rd person omniscient point of view

These quotes demonstrates what literary element?

1. “Bet you can’t climb as high as you can throw”

“Course he can’t”

“Climb to the top of my Aunt Fanny!”

• internal conflict

• external conflict

• imagery

• tone

This quote demonstrates what point of view?

Only today I wish I didn’t have only eleven years rattling inside me like pennies in a tin Band-Aid box. Today I wish I was one hundred and two instead of eleven

• 1st person point of view

• 2nd person point of view

• 3rd person limited point of view

• 3rd person omniscient point of view

What literary device do these quotes demonstrate?

“[My grandfather] would lash out with his cane, banging hereby tables and thumping the floor.”

          “ My grandfather had raised himself up from poverty and neglect.”

• internal conflict

• external conflict

• imagery

• tone