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Literary Elements and Devices

Authored by Margaret Anderson

English

9th - 12th Grade

40 Questions

CCSS covered

Literary Elements and Devices
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A hint about events to come (usually bad ones)

Foreshadowing
Exposition
Flashback
Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When the audience knows something important that a character doesn't know

Dramatic irony
Verbal irony
Situational irony
Characteristic irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When a narrative makes a brief "jump" into the past

Flashback
Exposition
Dramatic Hook
Flash-forward

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

Allusion is defined as______

Two lines working as a unit
A reference to a famous  person, place, or event
A form of wordplay with similar sounding sounds
Words that involve one of the five senses

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

A device that gives human attributes to animals and objects

Juxtaposition
Hyperbole
Personification
Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

A direct representation or a comparison where one thing is another

Metaphor
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Pun

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

Chilly chicken children shivered with goosebumps

alliteration
assonance
consonance
Do chickens get goosebumps or chickenbumps?

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

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