Literary Terms Quiz

____________________ is the repetition of initial consonant sounds (consonant is any letter that is not a vowel: a, e, i, o, u).

____________________ is the use of words that imitate sound (example: boom, bang, clang, clash).

____________________ a non-human subject is given human characteristics.

The ways in which the author develops a character in a work of fiction through mental, psychological, and physical traits is ____________________.

A ____________________ is a person, animal, being, creature, or thing in a story.

Two things compared without the use of “like” or “as” is ____________________.

Two things compared with the use of “like” or “as” is ____________________.

A character tells the story, usually in the “I, me my, we, us” perspective, and the reader knows only what this character feels and sees ____________________.

The narrator uses the second person pronoun “you” to tell the story ____________________.

A voice outside of the work tells the story and the reader can tell what any character thinks or feels ____________________.