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Fiction Basics Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The attitude of a writer toward the subject
Tone
Dialect
Imagery
Theme
2. 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
Flat Character
Setting
Assonance
Style
3. The unified structure of a literary work
Round Character
Plot
Third Person Omniscient
Foreshadowing
4. The conversation of characters in a literary work
Dialogue
Imagery
Figurative Language
Foil
5. The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe
Theme
Onomatopoeia
Falling Action
Rising Action
6. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama
Alliteration
Fiction
Style
Internal Conflict
7. An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself - that stands for something beyond itself
Dialogue
Verbal Irony
Personification
Symbol
8. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story
Climax
Falling Action
Reversal
Setting
9. A character who does not change
Static
First Person
Point of View
Antagonist
10. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words. 'Fetched fresh'
Alliteration
Allusion
Flashback
Protagonist
11. 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
Figurative Language
Hyperbole
Style
Personification
12. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as. ex. 'My love is a red - red rose -'
Inciting Incident
Metaphor
Verbal Irony
Denotation
13. When characters say the opposite of what they mean
Verbal Irony
Syntax
Recognition
Simile
14. The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe
Climax
Conflict
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
15. The selection of words in a literary work
Diction
Symbol
Situational Irony
Climax
16. A humorous - mocking imitation of a literary work - sometimes sarcastic - but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitation
Parody
Internal Conflict
Symbol
Dramatic Irony
17. A character who does not change
Climax
Static
Personification
Antagonist
18. The grammatical order of words in a sentence
Dialogue
Syntax
Plot
Static
19. The point in a plot which introduces the conflict and begins the rising action
Inciting Incident
Dynamic
Theme
Hyperbole
20. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama
Fiction
Symbol
Exposition
Onomatopoeia
21. The means by which writers present and reveal character
Personification
Parody
Characterization
Connotation
22. A character who changes
Inciting Incident
Setting
Dynamic
Reversal
23. The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative
Flashback
Diction
Dynamic
Verbal Irony
24. A parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot
Subplot
Complication
Internal Conflict
Theme
25. The dictionary meaning of a word
Satire
Flat Character
Denotation
Parody
26. The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work - to be distinguished from the actual living author
Falling Action
Inciting Incident
Narrator
Connotation
27. Giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects
Antagonist
Recognition
Personification
Tone
28. Writing like we speak
Dramatic Irony
Foreshadowing
Subplot
Dialect
29. 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.'
Assonance
Setting
Simile
Third Person Limited
30. The point in a plot which introduces the conflict and begins the rising action
Round Character
Inciting Incident
Reversal
Characterization
31. A character who changes
Dynamic
Narrator
Flat Character
Syntax
32. The selection of words in a literary work
Flashback
Foreshadowing
Verbal Irony
Diction
33. When characters say the opposite of what they mean
Point of View
Verbal Irony
Allusion
Protagonist
34. The angle from which a story is narrated
Syntax
Antagonist
Metaphor
Point of View
35. The main character of a literary work
Falling Action
Hyperbole
Point of View
Protagonist
36. Point of view in which the narrator is a character or an observer
Foil
First Person
Round Character
Dynamic
37. A struggle within a character
Foil
Assonance
Hyperbole
Internal Conflict
38. A character or force against which the protagonist struggles
Rising Action
Antagonist
Complication
Narrator
39. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play
Point of View
Metaphor
Complication
Narrator
40. When a character speaks in ignorance of a situation or event known to the audience or to the other characters
Round Character
Setting
Dramatic Irony
Denouement
41. The dictionary meaning of a word
Personification
Denotation
Onomatopoeia
Understatement
42. The implied meaning of a word
First Person
Falling Action
Satire
Connotation
43. Hints of What is to come in the action of a story
Tone
Foreshadowing
Denotation
Exposition
44. The point at which a character understands what his or her situation as it really is
Recognition
Personification
Alliteration
Tone
45. A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and makes fun of its stupidities
Internal Conflict
Complication
Satire
Round Character
46. When a character speaks in ignorance of a situation or event known to the audience or to the other characters
Fiction
Allusion
Protagonist
Dramatic Irony
47. The action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution
Verbal Irony
Falling Action
Flashback
Denotation
48. The conversation of characters in a literary work
Dialect
Round Character
Third Person Limited
Dialogue
49. Narrator knows everything about all the characters' thoughts and various situations
Tone
Third Person Omniscient
Situational Irony
Onomatopoeia
50. Hints of What is to come in the action of a story
Static
Narrator
Foreshadowing
Satire