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Fiction Basics Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The resolution of the plot of a literary work. All the loose ends are tied up
Assonance
Allusion
Static
Denouement
2. 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'
First Person
Assonance
Denouement
Internal Conflict
3. A character Who is well developed by the author and who many characteristics
Allusion
Diction
Round Character
Falling Action
4. A humorous - mocking imitation of a literary work - sometimes sarcastic - but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitation
Parody
Dramatic Irony
Round Character
Setting
5. The point in a plot which introduces the conflict and begins the rising action
Foreshadowing
Inciting Incident
Falling Action
Imagery
6. The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative
Flashback
Round Character
Connotation
Dialogue
7. A set of conflicts and crises that make up a story's plot leading up to the climax
Internal Conflict
Diction
Rising Action
Allusion
8. The angle from which a story is narrated
Tone
Point of View
Exposition
Falling Action
9. The means by which writers present and reveal character
Style
Characterization
Third Person Omniscient
Protagonist
10. The things we can see - hear - taste - feel - or smell in a short story
Foreshadowing
Alliteration
Static
Imagery
11. A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and makes fun of its stupidities
Falling Action
Dialect
First Person
Satire
12. 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
Symbol
Style
Alliteration
Verbal Irony
13. The resolution of the plot of a literary work. All the loose ends are tied up
Third Person Limited
Denouement
Dramatic Irony
Complication
14. A character Who is not very well developed; has few identifiable characteristics
Satire
Characterization
Imagery
Flat Character
15. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play
Complication
First Person
Dramatic Irony
Setting
16. The attitude of a writer toward the subject
Internal Conflict
Plot
Metaphor
Tone
17. The dictionary meaning of a word
Denotation
Round Character
Characterization
Theme
18. A character who contrasts the main character in a story.
Foil
Understatement
Round Character
Diction
19. A character Who is not very well developed; has few identifiable characteristics
Connotation
Flat Character
Conflict
Understatement
20. The time and place of a literary work
Exposition
Denotation
Setting
Tone
21. Narrator is not a character - but sees the world through only one character's eyes and thoughts
Third Person Limited
Flat Character
Protagonist
Dialogue
22. A struggle within a character
Symbol
Internal Conflict
Figurative Language
Flat Character
23. A struggle within a character
Internal Conflict
Onomatopoeia
First Person
Rising Action
24. The things we can see - hear - taste - feel - or smell in a short story
Flat Character
Complication
Verbal Irony
Imagery
25. The main idea of a short story
Internal Conflict
Theme
Tone
Foreshadowing
26. A parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot
Foreshadowing
Syntax
Symbol
Subplot
27. The main character of a literary work
Narrator
Symbol
Protagonist
Situational Irony
28. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as. ex. 'My love is a red - red rose -'
Alliteration
Metaphor
Setting
Falling Action
29. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story
Exposition
Climax
Reversal
Flashback
30. A figure of speech involving exaggeration
Flat Character
Hyperbole
Dialect
Imagery
31. A humorous - mocking imitation of a literary work - sometimes sarcastic - but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitation
Complication
Reversal
Parody
Climax
32. The main idea of a short story
Rising Action
Narrator
Theme
Subplot
33. A character Who is well developed by the author and who many characteristics
Dialect
Round Character
Simile
Parody
34. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama
Dynamic
Fiction
Assonance
Hyperbole
35. The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work - to be distinguished from the actual living author
Hyperbole
First Person
Narrator
Third Person Omniscient
36. The point at which a character understands what his or her situation as it really is
Recognition
Static
Conflict
Third Person Limited
37. A figure of speech involving exaggeration
Alliteration
Falling Action
Hyperbole
Point of View
38. 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
Denotation
Imagery
Assonance
39. 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
Dynamic
Figurative Language
Alliteration
Reversal
40. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words. 'Fetched fresh'
Narrator
Alliteration
Metaphor
Complication
41. The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe
Round Character
Imagery
Verbal Irony
Onomatopoeia
42. The means by which writers present and reveal character
Flashback
Characterization
Subplot
Subplot
43. A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like - as - or as though. An example: 'My love is like a red - red rose.'
Simile
Symbol
Flashback
Verbal Irony
44. A reference to another literary work - myth - or work of art - in a short story
Connotation
Antagonist
Allusion
Rising Action
45. The grammatical order of words in a sentence
Syntax
Metaphor
Figurative Language
First Person
46. The implied meaning of a word
Internal Conflict
Static
Dynamic
Connotation
47. A parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot
Subplot
Metaphor
Satire
Round Character
48. Writing like we speak
Fiction
Plot
Dialect
Recognition
49. The angle from which a story is narrated
Dramatic Irony
Point of View
Narrator
Internal Conflict
50. A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and makes fun of its stupidities
Personification
Satire
Allusion
Imagery