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Fiction Basics Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A character who does not change
Symbol
Static
Internal Conflict
Conflict
2. The grammatical order of words in a sentence
Assonance
Complication
Figurative Language
Syntax
3. A struggle within a character
Personification
Internal Conflict
Exposition
Foil
4. A parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot
Foreshadowing
Figurative Language
Protagonist
Subplot
5. The dictionary meaning of a word
Denotation
Antagonist
Metaphor
Connotation
6. The means by which writers present and reveal character
Characterization
Connotation
Denouement
Denouement
7. A reference to another literary work - myth - or work of art - in a short story
Allusion
Reversal
Metaphor
Dynamic
8. A struggle within a character
Internal Conflict
Rising Action
Denouement
Assonance
9. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama
Exposition
Hyperbole
Climax
Fiction
10. When the opposite of What is expected occurs
Third Person Omniscient
Narrator
Internal Conflict
Situational Irony
11. Narrator is not a character - but sees the world through only one character's eyes and thoughts
Verbal Irony
Internal Conflict
First Person
Third Person Limited
12. The attitude of a writer toward the subject
Tone
Parody
Foil
Satire
13. The things we can see - hear - taste - feel - or smell in a short story
Syntax
Imagery
Dialect
Exposition
14. Narrator knows everything about all the characters' thoughts and various situations
Protagonist
Alliteration
Plot
Third Person Omniscient
15. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story
Climax
Dialogue
Flat Character
Subplot
16. When a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means
Understatement
Satire
Characterization
Simile
17. The unified structure of a literary work
Plot
First Person
Verbal Irony
Inciting Incident
18. A character who contrasts the main character in a story.
Plot
Hyperbole
Foil
Verbal Irony
19. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist
Denotation
Rising Action
Dynamic
Reversal
20. The angle from which a story is narrated
Plot
Point of View
Satire
Complication
21. The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe
Syntax
Exposition
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
22. Giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects
Foil
Personification
Conflict
Flashback
23. The point at which a character understands what his or her situation as it really is
Metaphor
Alliteration
Round Character
Recognition
24. A set of conflicts and crises that make up a story's plot leading up to the climax
Rising Action
Characterization
Dynamic
Dramatic Irony
25. When a character speaks in ignorance of a situation or event known to the audience or to the other characters
Dramatic Irony
Syntax
Denouement
Narrator
26. The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work - to be distinguished from the actual living author
Narrator
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Dynamic
27. A struggle between opposing forces in a story or play - usually resolved by the end of the work. It may occur within a character as well as between characters
Hyperbole
Rising Action
Falling Action
Conflict
28. The time and place of a literary work
Setting
Narrator
Dialect
Internal Conflict
29. A humorous - mocking imitation of a literary work - sometimes sarcastic - but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitation
Alliteration
Flat Character
Parody
Fiction
30. Narrator is not a character - but sees the world through only one character's eyes and thoughts
Parody
Flashback
Third Person Limited
Rising Action
31. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as. ex. 'My love is a red - red rose -'
Metaphor
First Person
Reversal
Alliteration
32. Writing like we speak
Climax
Dialect
Simile
Complication
33. The things we can see - hear - taste - feel - or smell in a short story
Dramatic Irony
Imagery
Connotation
Theme
34. The conversation of characters in a literary work
Verbal Irony
Syntax
Satire
Dialogue
35. An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself - that stands for something beyond itself
Internal Conflict
Narrator
Symbol
Recognition
36. A figure of speech involving exaggeration
Hyperbole
Narrator
Narrator
Tone
37. Writing like we speak
Parody
Dramatic Irony
Dialect
Denouement
38. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist
Syntax
Theme
Reversal
Falling Action
39. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose - as in 'I rose and told him of my woe'
Syntax
Situational Irony
Metaphor
Assonance
40. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words. Examples include hyperbole - simile and metaphor
Conflict
Figurative Language
Fiction
Static
41. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words. Examples include hyperbole - simile and metaphor
Recognition
Denouement
Internal Conflict
Figurative Language
42. The resolution of the plot of a literary work. All the loose ends are tied up
Diction
Denouement
Denotation
Dynamic
43. When characters say the opposite of what they mean
Characterization
Conflict
Verbal Irony
Plot
44. The point at which a character understands what his or her situation as it really is
Recognition
Static
Climax
Dialect
45. The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe
Narrator
Reversal
Theme
Onomatopoeia
46. The point in a plot which introduces the conflict and begins the rising action
Inciting Incident
Dialogue
Foil
Parody
47. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play
Plot
Antagonist
Complication
Metaphor
48. A parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot
Foil
Dramatic Irony
Subplot
Round Character
49. The selection of words in a literary work
Parody
Setting
Conflict
Diction
50. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play
Dialect
Complication
Protagonist
Assonance