Literary Analysis and Literary Elements Quiz

Test your knowledge of literary elements with this narratology quiz. Identify terms, authors, and literary devices in famous works.

#1

Which literary element refers to the sequence of events in a story?

Setting
Plot
Characterization
Theme
#2

What is the term for a central idea or message in a literary work?

Conflict
Motif
Theme
Foreshadowing
#3

What is the term for the repetition of the initial consonant sounds in a series of words within a phrase or verse?

Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
Onomatopoeia
#4

Who wrote the poem 'The Raven'?

Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Dickinson
Robert Frost
Langston Hughes
#5

What is the term for the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, thing, place, or experience?

Imagery
Symbolism
Allusion
Allegory
#6

What is the term for the emotional atmosphere created by a literary work?

Tone
Mood
Style
Symbolism
#7

Which literary device involves a figure of speech in which contradictory terms are combined?

Simile
Metaphor
Paradox
Irony
#8

Who wrote the play 'Romeo and Juliet'?

William Faulkner
Jane Austen
William Shakespeare
Charles Dickens
#9

What is the term for a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance?

Symbolism
Allegory
Allusion
Anaphora
#10

Who is the author of the novel '1984'?

Aldous Huxley
George Orwell
Ray Bradbury
J.D. Salinger
#11

What is the term for a figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole or vice versa?

Metonymy
Synecdoche
Hyperbole
Euphemism
#12

Who is the author of the novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?

J.K. Rowling
Harper Lee
George Orwell
Ernest Hemingway
#13

In poetry, what term is used to describe the pattern of rhymes at the end of lines?

Alliteration
Assonance
Rhyme scheme
Consonance
#14

Which literary element represents the perspective from which a story is told?

Point of view
Symbolism
Irony
Imagery
#15

In 'The Great Gatsby,' what is the name of the narrator?

Nick Carraway
Jay Gatsby
Daisy Buchanan
Tom Buchanan
#16

In the play 'Hamlet,' who is Hamlet's mother?

Ophelia
Gertrude
Desdemona
Lady Macbeth
#17

What literary term is used to describe the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in the plot?

Foreshadowing
Flashback
Irony
Symbolism

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