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Fiction Basics Vocab
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1. The way an author chooses words - arranges them in sentences or in lines of dialogue or verse - and develops ideas and actions with description - imagery - and other literary techniques
Third Person Omniscient
First Person
Style
Exposition
2. Narrator knows everything about all the characters' thoughts and various situations
Plot
Third Person Omniscient
Foil
Imagery
3. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words. 'Fetched fresh'
Alliteration
Recognition
Complication
Assonance
4. The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work - to be distinguished from the actual living author
Recognition
Narrator
Syntax
Satire
5. When characters say the opposite of what they mean
Verbal Irony
Complication
Subplot
Foreshadowing
6. 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
Style
Denouement
Flat Character
Conflict
7. 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
Complication
Allusion
Style
8. The grammatical order of words in a sentence
Onomatopoeia
Round Character
First Person
Syntax
9. A set of conflicts and crises that make up a story's plot leading up to the climax
Round Character
Plot
Rising Action
First Person
10. A character Who is well developed by the author and who many characteristics
Round Character
Foil
Hyperbole
Setting
11. A humorous - mocking imitation of a literary work - sometimes sarcastic - but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitation
Parody
Dialect
Flashback
Personification
12. The time and place of a literary work
Dialect
Alliteration
Setting
Metaphor
13. A character who contrasts the main character in a story.
Foil
Setting
Dynamic
Fiction
14. When a character speaks in ignorance of a situation or event known to the audience or to the other characters
Rising Action
Simile
Dramatic Irony
Personification
15. The first stage of a story - in which necessary background information is provided
Falling Action
Exposition
Parody
First Person
16. 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
Figurative Language
Inciting Incident
Recognition
17. A parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot
Subplot
Conflict
Plot
Allusion
18. A character who does not change
Point of View
Static
Narrator
Foil
19. The point at which a character understands what his or her situation as it really is
Recognition
Dialogue
Imagery
Point of View
20. The point at which a character understands what his or her situation as it really is
Recognition
Exposition
Simile
Alliteration
21. The main character of a literary work
Third Person Limited
Reversal
Protagonist
Tone
22. The means by which writers present and reveal character
Characterization
Alliteration
Connotation
Reversal
23. 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
Syntax
Conflict
Dialect
Satire
24. Giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects
Rising Action
Recognition
First Person
Personification
25. Narrator knows everything about all the characters' thoughts and various situations
Third Person Omniscient
Foreshadowing
Allusion
Fiction
26. When a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means
Metaphor
Understatement
Foil
Conflict
27. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story
First Person
Foreshadowing
Inciting Incident
Climax
28. The selection of words in a literary work
Diction
Alliteration
Subplot
Foil
29. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist
Theme
Reversal
Situational Irony
Subplot
30. 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
Third Person Limited
Setting
Reversal
31. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story
Reversal
Hyperbole
Climax
Plot
32. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama
Plot
Metaphor
Denouement
Fiction
33. An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself - that stands for something beyond itself
Symbol
Diction
Complication
Plot
34. The things we can see - hear - taste - feel - or smell in a short story
Third Person Omniscient
Third Person Limited
Imagery
Theme
35. The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work - to be distinguished from the actual living author
Complication
Falling Action
Narrator
Simile
36. The action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution
Denouement
Point of View
Subplot
Falling Action
37. Point of view in which the narrator is a character or an observer
Flashback
Recognition
Dramatic Irony
First Person
38. The conversation of characters in a literary work
Round Character
Narrator
Dialogue
Denotation
39. The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe
Allusion
Recognition
Onomatopoeia
Antagonist
40. 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'
Assonance
Dialect
Static
Plot
41. A reference to another literary work - myth - or work of art - in a short story
Allusion
Style
Hyperbole
Recognition
42. The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe
Onomatopoeia
Conflict
Static
Third Person Limited
43. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play
Alliteration
Complication
Diction
Subplot
44. The resolution of the plot of a literary work. All the loose ends are tied up
Denouement
Third Person Limited
First Person
Verbal Irony
45. The main idea of a short story
Imagery
Subplot
Theme
Dynamic
46. The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative
Imagery
Point of View
Satire
Flashback
47. The dictionary meaning of a word
Denotation
Syntax
Flashback
Style
48. A struggle within a character
Situational Irony
Inciting Incident
Assonance
Internal Conflict
49. The first stage of a story - in which necessary background information is provided
Parody
Internal Conflict
Foil
Exposition
50. 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
Connotation
Dynamic
Onomatopoeia
Figurative Language
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