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Fiction Basics Vocab
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writing-skills
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Hints of What is to come in the action of a story
Characterization
Static
Protagonist
Foreshadowing
2. The attitude of a writer toward the subject
Onomatopoeia
Tone
Dynamic
Denouement
3. The angle from which a story is narrated
Metaphor
Foil
Imagery
Point of View
4. The time and place of a literary work
Style
Verbal Irony
First Person
Setting
5. The point at which a character understands what his or her situation as it really is
Recognition
Complication
Style
Rising Action
6. Narrator knows everything about all the characters' thoughts and various situations
Internal Conflict
Verbal Irony
Third Person Omniscient
Understatement
7. When a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means
Understatement
Figurative Language
Satire
Parody
8. The means by which writers present and reveal character
Verbal Irony
Characterization
Point of View
Metaphor
9. The dictionary meaning of a word
Characterization
Figurative Language
Foil
Denotation
10. 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
Complication
Style
Satire
Symbol
11. The action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution
Verbal Irony
Point of View
Internal Conflict
Falling Action
12. A character or force against which the protagonist struggles
Verbal Irony
Antagonist
Rising Action
Personification
13. 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'
Denotation
First Person
Assonance
Recognition
14. 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
Narrator
Antagonist
Figurative Language
Foreshadowing
15. An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself - that stands for something beyond itself
Symbol
Theme
Personification
Imagery
16. Point of view in which the narrator is a character or an observer
Climax
Subplot
Diction
First Person
17. A character who contrasts the main character in a story.
Dynamic
Foil
Conflict
Situational Irony
18. The selection of words in a literary work
Rising Action
Diction
First Person
Internal Conflict
19. An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself - that stands for something beyond itself
Plot
Symbol
Antagonist
Climax
20. Narrator is not a character - but sees the world through only one character's eyes and thoughts
Parody
Third Person Limited
First Person
Conflict
21. 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
Style
Internal Conflict
Dynamic
Syntax
22. A struggle within a character
Internal Conflict
Dynamic
Third Person Omniscient
Rising Action
23. A humorous - mocking imitation of a literary work - sometimes sarcastic - but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitation
Tone
Alliteration
Recognition
Parody
24. The conversation of characters in a literary work
Narrator
Dialogue
Hyperbole
Denotation
25. The time and place of a literary work
Setting
Simile
Syntax
Connotation
26. The attitude of a writer toward the subject
Denouement
Tone
Foil
Metaphor
27. A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and makes fun of its stupidities
Plot
Satire
Foreshadowing
Allusion
28. A reference to another literary work - myth - or work of art - in a short story
Allusion
Setting
Situational Irony
Plot
29. A character Who is not very well developed; has few identifiable characteristics
Dialect
Alliteration
Personification
Flat Character
30. A character Who is not very well developed; has few identifiable characteristics
Flat Character
First Person
Onomatopoeia
Denotation
31. A character or force against which the protagonist struggles
Connotation
Antagonist
Dialogue
Theme
32. The main character of a literary work
Understatement
Allusion
Simile
Protagonist
33. The point at which a character understands what his or her situation as it really is
Situational Irony
Falling Action
Recognition
Symbol
34. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story
Climax
Protagonist
Third Person Limited
Symbol
35. Writing like we speak
Dialect
Climax
Style
Complication
36. A humorous - mocking imitation of a literary work - sometimes sarcastic - but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitation
Exposition
Situational Irony
Recognition
Parody
37. A set of conflicts and crises that make up a story's plot leading up to the climax
Figurative Language
Third Person Limited
Assonance
Rising Action
38. The main idea of a short story
Dynamic
Protagonist
Theme
Imagery
39. 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
Antagonist
Conflict
Denouement
Subplot
40. A character who does not change
Complication
Third Person Limited
Static
Simile
41. The angle from which a story is narrated
Climax
Point of View
Exposition
Flat Character
42. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play
Complication
Foreshadowing
Dramatic Irony
Alliteration
43. A set of conflicts and crises that make up a story's plot leading up to the climax
Simile
Foil
Satire
Rising Action
44. When characters say the opposite of what they mean
Connotation
Static
Verbal Irony
Reversal
45. A character who contrasts the main character in a story.
Theme
Figurative Language
Foil
Simile
46. The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative
Simile
Flashback
Simile
Third Person Limited
47. The action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution
Foreshadowing
Tone
Tone
Falling Action
48. The main character of a literary work
Protagonist
Fiction
Personification
Reversal
49. When the opposite of What is expected occurs
Conflict
Flashback
Assonance
Situational Irony
50. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as. ex. 'My love is a red - red rose -'
Diction
Denotation
Metaphor
Personification