Short Story: Literary Terms and Devices Quiz

What is the term for ideas that are philosophical and emotional, not concrete or tangible, yet come from experience?

Which literary device involves a story where characters represent general truths about human conduct?

What is the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words in a sentence or line of poetry called?

Which literary device refers to a well-known fictional, mythological, or historical person, place, or event outside the story?

What is the term for a character or force in opposition to the protagonist?

Which literary device involves addressing an absent person or an inanimate object as if present?

What is the term for a strong contrast shown through the juxtaposition of opposing words, phrases, clauses, sentences, or ideas?

Which term describes a statement that is debatable, as opposed to fact, and can be explicitly or implicitly stated?

What is the term for a remark made by one character in the presence of others, but assumed not to be heard by them?

What is the repetition of similar stressed vowel sounds within words in nearby sentences or words called?