Short Story: Literary Terms and Devices Quiz

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10th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which literary device involves a story where characters represent general truths about human conduct?
Alliteration
Abstraction
Allegory
Allusion
Tags
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the term for a character or force in opposition to the protagonist?
Antagonist
Protagonist
Analogy
Apostrophe
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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
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