Literary Elements and Devices Quiz

Time Connectives

• Time connectives are words or phrases used to show how events in a story are sequenced and linked.
• Examples include "then," "next," "before," and "after."

Character Types

• Main character: The central figure in a story.
• Secondary character: A supporting character in a story; not the main character.
• Antagonist: A character who creates problems in a story; a 'bad' character who stands in the way of the hero.
• Eponymous character: The character whose name is in the title of the story.

Story Elements

• Gruesome: Causing horror.
• Psyche: The mind.
• Instinctively: Without conscious thought.
• Devouring: Eating quickly.
• Crept: Walked quietly.
• Rallied: Acted together in support of each other.
• Appraised: Judged, considered the value of.

Literary Devices

• Fable: A short story designed to teach a moral.
• Harmattan: A dry wind that blows over West Africa from the desert.
• Abstractedly: Lost in thought.
• Brooding: Deep in thought, possibly sad or angry.
• Cocked his ears: Turned his head to listen.
• Thicket: A dense group of bushes or trees.
• Prosecuted: Taken to court for doing something illegal.
• Vividly: Remembered.
• Metaphor: A long-term effect and to be meaningful
• Shadow: Casts a long shadow
• Rhyme: Part sounds where the end rhymes (for example), the same.
• Rhythm: A regular, repeating pattern of sound or 'beat'.
• Comparative adjective: An adjective that compares two nouns (for example, “the tall boy” and “the taller boy”).
• Chronological order: The order in which events occurred in time.
• Hastened: Move quickly.
• Feeble: Weak.
• Longeded for: Missed or wished for.
• Bid him: Say

Other Vocabulary

• Soot: A black powder.
• Dearly: Greatly, very much
• Brute: A cruel person or animal.
• Accosted: Approached aggressively.
• Shell: An international oil company.
• Countered: Responded in a slightly hostile way.
• Doused: Put out (a fire or a light).
• Rigidness: Inability to change his mind or listen to other ideas.
•  Swarmed: Moved quickly in a large group.
• Sweltering: Extremely hot and humid
• Minuscule: Tiny
• Ploughed on: Continued
• Adversary: Opponent
• Engulfed: Surrounded completely
• Rooster: A gathering (usually of birds, but used to describe people here)
• Strode: Walked quickly with long paces
• Admonishing: Reprimanding
• Cowering: Crouching (in fear).
• Busybodies: Meddling, nosy people.
• Writhing: Moving about as if in pain
• Grotesque: Ugly

Locations

• The Shard: A well-known tall building in London.
• Underground pipes: Pipes that carry waste water

Actions

• Petered out: Gradually got weaker, before going out.
• Spewed: Forced out in large quantities