Literary Devices Quiz

What is the author’s attitude towards the characters or subject of a work called?

• Tone

• Symbol

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

What is an item that represents something else, such as a rose standing for love, called?

• Symbol

• Tone

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

What is the term for hints or clues about what is to come in a story?

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

• Symbol

• Tone

What is it called when an event in a story is interrupted with a scene from the past?

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• Symbol

• Tone

What is the term for giving human characteristics to something non-human?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

What is it called when the opposite of what is expected happens?

• Situational irony

• Foreshadowing

• Symbolism

• Flashback

A character who changes during a story is called what?

• Dynamic

• Static

• Protagonist

• Narrator

What is the term for the character or force that rises up against the main character?

• Antagonist

• Protagonist

• Narrator

• Foil

What is the term for an extreme exaggeration?

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Allusion

What is it called when several words close to each other begin with the same consonant letter?

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Allusion