LITERARY ELEMENTS TEST for the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th Grade Free Online
Literary elements study words: allegory, alliteration, allusion, antagonist, assonance, character, comedy, conflict, fable, imagery, irony, metaphor, myth, onomatopoeia, paradox, parody, personification, plot, protagonist, satire, setting, simile, theme, tragedy
Instructions: Choose the best answer for each question.
Literary elements study words: allegory, alliteration, allusion, antagonist, assonance, character, comedy, conflict, fable, imagery, irony, metaphor, myth, onomatopoeia, paradox, parody, personification, plot, protagonist, satire, setting, simile, theme, tragedy
Instructions: Choose the best answer for each question.
1. a play or story about serious events or ideas that usually ends with the death of the main character or characters.
2. a short tale that teaches a lesson. The characters in __________ are often animals who speak and act like people.
3. a tool in art or literature that uses concrete characters, events, or things to represent ideas or beliefs.
4. in poetry, use of the same vowel sounds in the accented syllables but with different consonants, as in "deep" and "feet".
5. the formation or use of words whose sounds suggest the meanings of the words, such as "bang," "moo," or "jingle".
6. a humorous imitation in print, music, or performance of a serious person, work of art, or publication.
7. spoken or written words that mean the opposite of their usual meaning.
8. a figure of speech in which two different things are compared by using the words "like" or "as." "The cake was as light as a feather" is an example of a __________.
9. the story line or order of events in a book, play, or movie.
10. a story that is written or told to represent an idea or belief usually using symbols and imagery.
11. images that are created in the mind while reading or looking at art.
12. a statement that contradicts or seems to contradict itself, yet often expresses a truth, such as "Less is more".
13. a phrase that describes something by comparing it to some other thing.
14. a character who works against the hero of a story.
15. a literary or dramatic work that ridicules or derides human vice or foolishness, usually through the use of parody or irony.
16. a play, film, story, or television show that is funny.
17. the main action or ideas in the story. good vs., evil.
18. an indirect reference to or mention of something.
19. the leading character in a literary work.
20. the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of words in a phrase or sentence.
21. the time and place in which something happens.
22. all the things that make a person, place, or thing different from others.
23. a story or group of stories that form part of the traditional knowledge of a society. __________ often use imaginative plots and characters to explain how the world began and why nature and people behave the way they do.
24. to be in strong opposition to.
25. a person considered to be a perfect example or embodiment of some quality or other abstraction.
26. similarity in sounds, especially vowel sounds.
