Literary Elements Quiz

Articles or objects that appear on stage during a play *

• Aside

• Foreshadowing

• Metaphor

• Props

A literary work of drama which is amusing and ends happily *

• Comedy

• Foreshadowing

• Iambic Pentameter

• Stage

A raised platform in a theater where the performers stand *

• Dialogue

• Irony

• Oxymoron

• Stage

A common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unstressed syllable and a stressed syllable

• Foreshadowing

• Iambic Pentameter

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

A story acted out live, using dialogue and action *

• Foreshadowing

• Irony

• Play

• Similie

A comparison of two unlike things without using the word like or as *

• Irony

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Tragedy

A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage *

• Aside

• Metaphor

• Monologue

• Soliloquy

A weakness or limitation of character, resulting in the fall of the tragic hero *

• Comedy

• Similie

• Stage

• Tragic Flaw

A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem

• Aside

• Comedy

• Couplet

• Soliloquy

A reference to a famous person, place, or event *

• Allusion

• Comedy

• Theme

• Tragedy