Literary Elements and Devices Multiple Choice Quiz. This test covers various topics in literature including literary forms and elements, figures of speech, and critical approaches in examining literary works.
- Which literary element is not a focus of a formalist analysis?
- Diction
- Rhythm
- Gender Equality
- Characters
- What literary context relates the imprisonment of Amado Hernandez to his poem Isang Dipang Langit?
- Historical Context
- Social Context
- Biographical Context
- Political Context
- Which is not a literary form?
- Epic
- Melodrama
- Short Story
- Science-fiction
- Which is not a feature of prose literature?
- Figure of Speech
- Paragraph
- Rhyme Scheme
- Narration
- Which of these does not constitute a writer’s style?
- Choice of Words
- Grammar
- Literary Form
- Voice and Rhythm
- Which of these best defines feminism as a critical approach to literature?
- Feminism is an ideology that seeks to establish gender quality.
- Feminism examines the influence of gender to literature.
- Feminism clarifies political and economic roles of women.
- Feminism attempts to promote reverse sexism.
- What best defines a dynamic character in a literary narrative?
- Complexity of personality
- Conventional or stereotypical quality
- Strong involvement on the part of the reader
- Transformation as a result of resolving a conflict
- Which best describes a denouement in a story plot?
- It is the most intense part of a story.
- It is where the major conflict arises in a dramatic intensity.
- It establishes the background to the readers.
- It explains the outcome of the complex events in the story.
- What is common between alliteration and assonance?
- Repetition of sounds within successive words in a poetic line
- Repetition of a sequence of words within neighboring clauses
- Blending of sounds within strings of words
- Comparison of things essentially unlike
- Which statement best defines oxymoron?
- It is a way of speaking which minimizes the significance of something.
- It comes with an adjective and a noun with contrasting meanings
- It is an arrangement of contrasted ideas in parallel construction.
- It is an exaggerated statement.
- Which characters are direct opposites?
- Round and Stock
- Dynamic and Antagonist
- Dynamic and Flat
- Protagonist and Round
- Which figure of speech expresses substitution of meaning?
- Anaphora
- Oxymoron
- Alliteration
- Metonymy
- Which word pair strongly suggests a synecdoche?
- Heads and persons
- President and the palace
- Crown and royalty
- Scientist and lab gown
- What fiction uses elements that are related to life-like situations?
- Biographical Fiction
- Realistic Fiction
- Historical Fiction
- Fanciful Fiction
- Which narrator reports the events in the point of view of ‘I’?
- Omniscient
- First Person
- Limited Omniscient
- Unreliable
- Which statement best defines poetry?
- It refers to the writings in verse.
- It is a discourse that uses sentences and paragraphs.
- It discusses issues concerning human affairs.
- It narrates meaningful human experiences.
- What is literary genre?
- It is the structure or the way a piece is published.
- It a category determined by the technique of the author.
- It is one of the established major divisions of literature.
- It is a body of works derived from realities.
- What distinguishes fiction from nonfiction?
- The content on the basis of factuality or imagination
- The chronological order of events in the narrative
- The figurative languages employed by the writer
- The number of characters playing important roles in the story
- Which statement best describes the relationship between conflict and plot?
- Conflict and plot are not related to each other.
- Conflict is bad; plot is good.
- Conflict and plot are the only elements of a story.
- Without conflict, there is no plot.
- What is symbolism?
- A character representing the opposition
- A concrete object representing an abstract idea
- The most exciting part in a story plot
- The number of feet in a poetic line
- Which statement best defines theme?
- Theme is not important.
- Theme is where the story takes place.
- Theme is what happens in a story.
- Theme is the central idea of a story.
- What story is about a person’s life written by someone else?
- Biography
- Autobiography
- Journal
- Personal History
- Which folk narrative explains how something comes into existence?
- Myth
- Folktale
- Legend
- Fable
- Which story usually comes in series or in several chapters?
- Short Story
- Novel
- Novella
- Play
- Which poetic foot contains an unaccented short followed by an accented long syllable in a single line?
- Iamb
- Trochee
- Spondee
- Anapest