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Grade 9 · English Language Arts · Unit 3 of 11

Literary Elements

Irony, motif, tone and mood

What your child practises

Recognizing devices such as irony, symbolism, motif, allusion and foils in short excerpts, and describing tone and mood.

Nunavut Curriculum approved guide: NWT English Language Arts (2011), Comprehension · themes, perspectives and how a creator's choices shape a text

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which literary device does this excerpt use?

    The fire station burned to the ground on the night of the town's biggest fire-safety fair.

    • Metaphor
    • Situational irony
    • Alliteration
    • Verbal irony

  2. Question 2

    Which literary device does this excerpt use?

    “What a lovely day for a picnic,” she muttered, as the storm clouds rolled in.

    • Personification
    • Verbal irony
    • Situational irony
    • Alliteration

  3. Question 3

    Which literary device does this excerpt use?

    She was a real Cinderella at the dance, rushing off before midnight.

    • Simile
    • Foreshadowing
    • Hyperbole
    • Allusion

  4. Question 4

    Which literary device does this excerpt use?

    The doctor caught the flu the week before the health conference.

    • Motif
    • Situational irony
    • Verbal irony
    • Alliteration

  5. Question 5

    Which literary device does this excerpt use?

    Throughout the book, a cracked watch appears each time the family argues.

    • Foil
    • Allusion
    • Motif
    • Hyperbole

  6. Question 6

    What is the tone of this sentence?

    The report notes that the experiment was performed on three separate occasions and that the results were consistent.

    • formal and objective
    • playful and silly
    • angry
    • emotional and personal

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