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Fiction Basics Vocab
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1. 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.'
Style
Characterization
Falling Action
Simile
2. Point of view in which the narrator is a character or an observer
Diction
Hyperbole
First Person
Symbol
3. A character or force against which the protagonist struggles
Onomatopoeia
Static
Antagonist
Protagonist
4. Narrator knows everything about all the characters' thoughts and various situations
Diction
Subplot
Exposition
Third Person Omniscient
5. When a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means
Understatement
Hyperbole
Foreshadowing
Dynamic
6. 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'
Metaphor
Assonance
Personification
Understatement
7. The angle from which a story is narrated
Diction
Inciting Incident
Point of View
Onomatopoeia
8. The resolution of the plot of a literary work. All the loose ends are tied up
Tone
Figurative Language
Round Character
Denouement
9. A character who changes
Allusion
Foreshadowing
Situational Irony
Dynamic
10. The first stage of a story - in which necessary background information is provided
Fiction
Rising Action
Exposition
Internal Conflict
11. A reference to another literary work - myth - or work of art - in a short story
Climax
Narrator
Allusion
Parody
12. Narrator knows everything about all the characters' thoughts and various situations
Flashback
Protagonist
Third Person Omniscient
Reversal
13. The conversation of characters in a literary work
Dialogue
Hyperbole
Metaphor
First Person
14. The time and place of a literary work
Round Character
Diction
Setting
Hyperbole
15. The things we can see - hear - taste - feel - or smell in a short story
Protagonist
Style
Exposition
Imagery
16. A parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot
Third Person Limited
Dynamic
Style
Subplot
17. A character Who is not very well developed; has few identifiable characteristics
Third Person Limited
Foreshadowing
Flat Character
Narrator
18. A character Who is not very well developed; has few identifiable characteristics
Diction
Flat Character
Narrator
Syntax
19. 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
Dramatic Irony
First Person
Situational Irony
Style
20. A struggle within a character
Third Person Omniscient
Style
Personification
Internal Conflict
21. Narrator is not a character - but sees the world through only one character's eyes and thoughts
Hyperbole
Figurative Language
Alliteration
Third Person Limited
22. The unified structure of a literary work
Dynamic
Conflict
Plot
Assonance
23. The point in a plot which introduces the conflict and begins the rising action
Inciting Incident
Alliteration
Internal Conflict
Diction
24. An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself - that stands for something beyond itself
Complication
Climax
Symbol
Dramatic Irony
25. A character Who is well developed by the author and who many characteristics
Round Character
Onomatopoeia
Static
Dramatic Irony
26. The dictionary meaning of a word
Denotation
Narrator
Round Character
Metaphor
27. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama
Fiction
Onomatopoeia
Flashback
Diction
28. Narrator is not a character - but sees the world through only one character's eyes and thoughts
Denouement
Personification
Tone
Third Person Limited
29. A set of conflicts and crises that make up a story's plot leading up to the climax
Third Person Limited
Denouement
Rising Action
Narrator
30. A character who contrasts the main character in a story.
Foil
Complication
Hyperbole
Satire
31. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story
Climax
Parody
Fiction
Dramatic Irony
32. The main character of a literary work
Protagonist
Complication
Symbol
Exposition
33. 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
Imagery
Onomatopoeia
Figurative Language
Climax
34. A character who does not change
Static
Antagonist
Dynamic
Hyperbole
35. The selection of words in a literary work
Alliteration
Personification
Diction
Theme
36. A set of conflicts and crises that make up a story's plot leading up to the climax
Rising Action
Plot
Onomatopoeia
Tone
37. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words. 'Fetched fresh'
Satire
Assonance
Tone
Alliteration
38. The first stage of a story - in which necessary background information is provided
Complication
Personification
Syntax
Exposition
39. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story
Falling Action
Satire
Denotation
Climax
40. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play
Dialogue
Complication
Style
Climax
41. The selection of words in a literary work
Style
Diction
First Person
Metaphor
42. 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'
Exposition
Point of View
Assonance
Personification
43. The attitude of a writer toward the subject
Point of View
Recognition
Dramatic Irony
Tone
44. A character Who is well developed by the author and who many characteristics
Round Character
Rising Action
Connotation
Internal Conflict
45. The resolution of the plot of a literary work. All the loose ends are tied up
Denouement
Tone
Dialogue
Style
46. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as. ex. 'My love is a red - red rose -'
Dialogue
Static
Metaphor
Assonance
47. The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work - to be distinguished from the actual living author
Narrator
Hyperbole
Denotation
Situational Irony
48. A humorous - mocking imitation of a literary work - sometimes sarcastic - but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitation
Antagonist
First Person
Personification
Parody
49. The point at which a character understands what his or her situation as it really is
Tone
Recognition
Assonance
Rising Action
50. Hints of What is to come in the action of a story
Foreshadowing
Understatement
Narrator
Metaphor