Short Story: Literary Terms and Devices Quiz

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

• Allegory

• Abstraction

• Alliteration

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which literary device involves a story where characters represent general truths about human conduct?

• Alliteration

• Abstraction

• Allegory

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

• Allusion

• Allegory

• Abstraction

• Alliteration

Which literary device refers to a well-known fictional, mythological, or historical person, place, or event outside the story?

• Allusion

• Allegory

• Abstraction

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

What is the term for a character or force in opposition to the protagonist?

• Antagonist

• Protagonist

• Analogy

• Apostrophe

Which literary device involves addressing an absent person or an inanimate object as if present?

• Aside

• Apostrophe

• Antithesis

• Assertion

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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

• Ambiguity

• Analogy

• Antithesis

• Assertion

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which term describes a statement that is debatable, as opposed to fact, and can be explicitly or implicitly stated?

• Ambiguity

• Assertion

• Aside

• Analogy

Tags

CCSS.W.9-10.1B

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

• Aside

• Apostrophe

• Antagonist

• Ambiguity

What is the repetition of similar stressed vowel sounds within words in nearby sentences or words called?

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Rhyme