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Fiction Basics Vocab
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1. The grammatical order of words in a sentence
Internal Conflict
Style
Dialect
Syntax
2. The first stage of a story - in which necessary background information is provided
Rising Action
Exposition
Onomatopoeia
Third Person Limited
3. Giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects
Narrator
Hyperbole
Personification
Flat Character
4. The action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution
Inciting Incident
Falling Action
Situational Irony
First Person
5. The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe
Onomatopoeia
Falling Action
Denouement
Plot
6. A reference to another literary work - myth - or work of art - in a short story
Falling Action
Parody
Flashback
Allusion
7. 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
Denouement
Personification
Alliteration
Figurative Language
8. A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and makes fun of its stupidities
Satire
Rising Action
Plot
Antagonist
9. The resolution of the plot of a literary work. All the loose ends are tied up
Parody
Denouement
Personification
Connotation
10. The dictionary meaning of a word
Subplot
Imagery
Denotation
Tone
11. Point of view in which the narrator is a character or an observer
First Person
Third Person Omniscient
Assonance
Third Person Limited
12. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama
Exposition
Fiction
Exposition
Allusion
13. A parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot
Static
Inciting Incident
Subplot
Metaphor
14. A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and makes fun of its stupidities
Symbol
Denouement
Personification
Satire
15. Narrator is not a character - but sees the world through only one character's eyes and thoughts
Static
Third Person Limited
Point of View
Flashback
16. 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'
Third Person Omniscient
Falling Action
Assonance
Conflict
17. A figure of speech involving exaggeration
Flashback
Hyperbole
Plot
Diction
18. A reference to another literary work - myth - or work of art - in a short story
Allusion
Rising Action
Symbol
Figurative Language
19. The main character of a literary work
Alliteration
Protagonist
Third Person Omniscient
Dramatic Irony
20. The first stage of a story - in which necessary background information is provided
Round Character
Exposition
Connotation
Flat Character
21. The selection of words in a literary work
Understatement
First Person
Rising Action
Diction
22. Point of view in which the narrator is a character or an observer
Climax
Imagery
Complication
First Person
23. The point in a plot which introduces the conflict and begins the rising action
Onomatopoeia
Narrator
Subplot
Inciting Incident
24. A character who does not change
Personification
Static
Dialect
Satire
25. A character Who is not very well developed; has few identifiable characteristics
Style
Flat Character
Metaphor
Reversal
26. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama
Allusion
Narrator
Fiction
Exposition
27. The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative
Narrator
Characterization
Flashback
Parody
28. A character who contrasts the main character in a story.
Rising Action
Diction
Foil
Assonance
29. Writing like we speak
Denotation
Dynamic
Dialect
Diction
30. The unified structure of a literary work
Characterization
Onomatopoeia
Plot
Verbal Irony
31. A character or force against which the protagonist struggles
Allusion
Antagonist
Round Character
Plot
32. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist
Fiction
Metaphor
Reversal
Theme
33. A character who changes
Plot
Figurative Language
Dynamic
Allusion
34. 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
Plot
Figurative Language
Tone
Setting
35. A humorous - mocking imitation of a literary work - sometimes sarcastic - but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitation
Climax
Denotation
Onomatopoeia
Parody
36. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as. ex. 'My love is a red - red rose -'
Reversal
Metaphor
Narrator
Satire
37. The attitude of a writer toward the subject
Antagonist
Metaphor
Inciting Incident
Tone
38. The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work - to be distinguished from the actual living author
Narrator
Conflict
Metaphor
Round Character
39. The grammatical order of words in a sentence
Diction
Syntax
Onomatopoeia
Complication
40. A parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot
Diction
Recognition
Inciting Incident
Subplot
41. A set of conflicts and crises that make up a story's plot leading up to the climax
Protagonist
Personification
Rising Action
Exposition
42. The implied meaning of a word
Syntax
Narrator
Denotation
Connotation
43. The means by which writers present and reveal character
Imagery
Setting
Alliteration
Characterization
44. The action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution
Imagery
Static
Diction
Falling Action
45. The angle from which a story is narrated
Point of View
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
Foreshadowing
46. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story
Verbal Irony
Climax
Plot
Understatement
47. The resolution of the plot of a literary work. All the loose ends are tied up
Denouement
Dramatic Irony
Rising Action
Protagonist
48. Hints of What is to come in the action of a story
Dramatic Irony
Foreshadowing
Setting
Figurative Language
49. When a character speaks in ignorance of a situation or event known to the audience or to the other characters
Dynamic
Situational Irony
Dramatic Irony
Climax
50. A humorous - mocking imitation of a literary work - sometimes sarcastic - but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitation
Alliteration
Static
Dynamic
Parody
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