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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A character who does not change
Style
Static
First Person
Foil
2. The implied meaning of a word
Connotation
Antagonist
Allusion
Flat Character
3. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play
Complication
Static
Tone
Figurative Language
4. Narrator knows everything about all the characters' thoughts and various situations
Complication
Third Person Omniscient
Alliteration
Subplot
5. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist
First Person
Plot
Assonance
Reversal
6. The things we can see - hear - taste - feel - or smell in a short story
Diction
Imagery
Verbal Irony
Syntax
7. 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.'
Setting
Flashback
Simile
Denotation
8. The time and place of a literary work
Diction
Assonance
Setting
Parody
9. The attitude of a writer toward the subject
Inciting Incident
Metaphor
Tone
Personification
10. A character who does not change
Static
Allusion
Connotation
Satire
11. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist
Metaphor
Reversal
Subplot
Situational Irony
12. A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and makes fun of its stupidities
Satire
Syntax
Flashback
Syntax
13. A character or force against which the protagonist struggles
Subplot
Antagonist
Denotation
Setting
14. 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
Climax
Third Person Limited
15. Writing like we speak
Personification
Dialect
Round Character
Dynamic
16. A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and makes fun of its stupidities
Metaphor
Inciting Incident
Flashback
Satire
17. A humorous - mocking imitation of a literary work - sometimes sarcastic - but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitation
First Person
Setting
Parody
Rising Action
18. The conversation of characters in a literary work
Style
Third Person Limited
Denotation
Dialogue
19. A character who changes
Dynamic
Onomatopoeia
Dialogue
Metaphor
20. The action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution
Falling Action
Parody
Complication
Recognition
21. 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'
Imagery
Assonance
Exposition
Dramatic Irony
22. The selection of words in a literary work
Diction
Antagonist
Protagonist
Static
23. The selection of words in a literary work
Denouement
Alliteration
Diction
Alliteration
24. 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
Dramatic Irony
Personification
Figurative Language
Fiction
25. A set of conflicts and crises that make up a story's plot leading up to the climax
Hyperbole
Rising Action
Verbal Irony
First Person
26. The unified structure of a literary work
First Person
Characterization
Plot
Dialogue
27. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words. 'Fetched fresh'
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Foreshadowing
Rising Action
28. The grammatical order of words in a sentence
Diction
Parody
Syntax
First Person
29. Giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects
Personification
Connotation
Situational Irony
Simile
30. A character Who is well developed by the author and who many characteristics
Round Character
Syntax
Foreshadowing
Denotation
31. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words. 'Fetched fresh'
Third Person Omniscient
Dialogue
Foil
Alliteration
32. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as. ex. 'My love is a red - red rose -'
Characterization
Metaphor
Personification
Conflict
33. When characters say the opposite of what they mean
Assonance
Theme
Antagonist
Verbal Irony
34. When a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means
Understatement
Third Person Limited
Personification
Diction
35. The attitude of a writer toward the subject
Inciting Incident
Tone
Simile
Imagery
36. The resolution of the plot of a literary work. All the loose ends are tied up
Fiction
Denouement
Tone
Hyperbole
37. The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe
Dramatic Irony
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
Setting
38. A parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot
Hyperbole
Setting
Subplot
Diction
39. A character Who is not very well developed; has few identifiable characteristics
Flat Character
Conflict
Rising Action
Subplot
40. The angle from which a story is narrated
Point of View
Personification
Dialect
Dynamic
41. A character who contrasts the main character in a story.
Onomatopoeia
Foil
Fiction
Figurative Language
42. The means by which writers present and reveal character
Connotation
Characterization
Foreshadowing
Falling Action
43. The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative
Flat Character
Flashback
Setting
Verbal Irony
44. The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative
Connotation
Antagonist
Flashback
Parody
45. A figure of speech involving exaggeration
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Imagery
Denouement
46. When a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means
Understatement
Protagonist
Assonance
Dynamic
47. 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
Assonance
Flashback
Figurative Language
Dramatic Irony
48. Point of view in which the narrator is a character or an observer
First Person
Static
Parody
Subplot
49. When characters say the opposite of what they mean
Style
Dialogue
Setting
Verbal Irony
50. The unified structure of a literary work
Plot
Hyperbole
Verbal Irony
Style