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