Literary Concepts Quiz

The writer reveals information about a character and his personality through that character's thoughts, words, and actions.

• simile

• personification

• indirect characterization

• alliteration

The author's attitude toward a work of literature.

• irony

• mood

• tone

• theme

Methods a writer uses to develop characters.

• foreshadowing

• motivation

• characterization

• personification

Definition: a mental position from which things are viewed; the perspective or angle from which a story is told; the position the author takes which makes his/her writing achieve its purpose. (objective, subjective, political, religious, environmental, young, etc...)

• theme

• connotation

• point of view

• indirect characterization

Definition: a figure of speech comparing two unlike things without using like or as

• onomatopoeia

• analogy

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Definition: writing that tells a story

• pathos

• rhetoric

• dialogue

• narrative

a figure of speech wherein the author groups two apparently contradictory terms. "jumbo shrimp" and "cruel kindness."

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• simile

• oxymoron

the use of words that imitate sounds

• simile

• idiom

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

character that shows qualities that are in contrast with the qualities of another character with the objective to highlight the traits of the other character.

• paradox

• soliloquy

• pun

• foil

A circumstance in which the audience or reader knows more about a situation than a character.

• verbal irony

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

• foreshadowing