ESL EOI ~ Short Stories Practice Quiz- Answers

  1. Write the correct term for each of the following definitions or examples of literary devices.

Definitions or Examples / Term
  1. A tangible item that represents something else, sometimes a thought or feeling.
/ symbol
  1. The most suspenseful moment or the height of the action in a story.
/ climax
  1. A character who does not change throughout a story. Usually a minor character.
/ Flat character
  1. A comparison between two unlike things that does involve the words like or as.
/ simile
  1. The belief that the world is as bad as it could be and that things always tend to be evil.
/ pessimism
  1. A way of presenting the story so that the reader is made to feel pity or fear for the character(s).
/ pathos
  1. Conversation between two or more characters that reveals something about the characters through the way they talk and the things they say.
/ dialogue
  1. Person vs. nature, person vs. person, person vs. society or person vs. him/herself are all examples of this.
/ conflict
  1. The placement of two different things or ideas side by side so as to emphasize their differences.
/ contrast
  1. Hints or clues about events to come in a story.
/ foreshadowing
  1. The series of events outlining the protagonist’s conflict.
/ plot
  1. This type of narrator is a character in the story.
/ First person
  1. The hero and main character in a story.
/ protagonist
  1. A reference to either a historical event or famous person from history or literature.
/ allusion
  1. When what a character says is actually the opposite of what he or she means.
/ Verbal irony
  1. Identify the Literary Device being used in the following sentences and write the name of the device in the right hand column. The same device may be used more than once.

Examples of Literary Devices / Name of the Device
  1. Kisses are the flowers of love in bloom
/ metaphor
  1. This assignment is a breeze.
/ metaphor
  1. Her cheeks were as red as tomatoes.
/ simile
  1. The sun stretched its golden arms around the city.
/ personification
  1. “In front of Jack were a thousand knives, when all he wanted was a fork”
/ Irony (situational)

Bonus Question:

What is the name of the first short story that we read in ESL EOI this year? And who is the author?

(1/2 mark per answer)

Separation by Bing Xin

Short Stories Word Bank

plot
allusion
conflict
external conflict
internal conflict
theme
contrast
dialogue
flashback
flat character
round character
foreshadowing
verbal irony
situational irony
dramatic irony
narrator
first person point of view
third person point of view
omniscient point of view
limited point of view
protagonist
antagonist
personification
metaphor
simile
diction
setting
suspense
symbol
pathos
optimism
pessimism
climax
resolution
initial incident
complication