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