Name: ________________________________________________ Date: ______________________ Block: ____ A/B
Literary Elements Quiz
I. Story Elements: Match each story element with its description.
_____ 1. Setting
A. Describes things the character does (behavior or incudes movement)
_____ 2.Theme
B. Describes what a character says/how they say it.
C. Describes how the character responds to others or how others respond
_____ 3. Plot
D. Where and when a story takes place along with the duration
_____ 4. Speech
E.
Describes how the character looks (clothing, height)
_____ 5. Thoughts
F.
The sequence of events in a story
_____ 6. Reactions
G. The moral or lesson of a story that you can apply to your own life.
_____ 7. Actions
H. Describes the ideas and feelings in the character’s head/mind
_____ 8. Physical
II. Parts of the Plot: Label the plot pyramid using the letters of the events in the box.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Climax
Rising Action
Resolution
Falling Action
Exposition
III. Conflict. Write the correct letter in the blank
_____ 1. Character vs. society
_____ 2. Character vs. self
_____ 3. Character vs. technology
_____ 4. Character vs. nature
_____ 5. Character vs. character
_____ 6. Character vs. supernatural
_____ 7. Internal conflict
A. Marla and Luke argue over where to go for dinner.
B. Ebenezer Scrooge is terrified when he is visited by three
ghosts during the night.
C. Stevie can’t decide if he should skip English class.
D. Dwight can’t figure out how to submit a very important
test on his computer.
E. The people of Puerto Rico boarded up their homes as
Hurricane Maria approached.
F. Jeremy is accused of robbing the nation bank and stealing
everyone’s money.
G. A problem that takes place outside of the character.
H. A problem that takes place within the character.
_____ 8. External conflict
IV. Point of View
____ 1.
____ 2.
____ 3.
____ 4.
First person
Second person
Third Person
Narrator
A. Uses the pronouns “you, your”
B. The person telling the story
C. Uses the pronouns “he, she, they, them”
D. Uses the pronouns “I, me my, us, we”