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Fiction Basics Vocab
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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
Alliteration
Complication
Flat Character
Third Person Limited
2. A character who does not change
Static
Satire
Dialect
Flat Character
3. A figure of speech involving exaggeration
Hyperbole
Protagonist
Syntax
Falling Action
4. A figure of speech involving exaggeration
Diction
Understatement
Hyperbole
Static
5. A character or force against which the protagonist struggles
Characterization
Antagonist
Style
Exposition
6. When the opposite of What is expected occurs
Alliteration
Situational Irony
Recognition
Foil
7. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words. 'Fetched fresh'
Dramatic Irony
Denouement
Symbol
Alliteration
8. The main idea of a short story
Fiction
Theme
Diction
Dialogue
9. The action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution
Falling Action
Satire
Complication
Inciting Incident
10. Writing like we speak
Assonance
Static
Dialect
Dramatic Irony
11. The means by which writers present and reveal character
Characterization
Complication
Round Character
Rising Action
12. Point of view in which the narrator is a character or an observer
Third Person Limited
Setting
Assonance
First Person
13. The conversation of characters in a literary work
Third Person Omniscient
Dialogue
Assonance
Satire
14. Hints of What is to come in the action of a story
Foreshadowing
Falling Action
Fiction
Dynamic
15. The attitude of a writer toward the subject
Verbal Irony
Plot
First Person
Tone
16. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as. ex. 'My love is a red - red rose -'
Syntax
Alliteration
Metaphor
Antagonist
17. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist
Imagery
Antagonist
Dialect
Reversal
18. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist
Foil
Reversal
Figurative Language
Dramatic Irony
19. The selection of words in a literary work
Diction
Verbal Irony
Exposition
Protagonist
20. A character Who is well developed by the author and who many characteristics
Complication
Reversal
Round Character
Onomatopoeia
21. Giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects
Denouement
Protagonist
Tone
Personification
22. The time and place of a literary work
Setting
Exposition
Connotation
Allusion
23. When characters say the opposite of what they mean
Complication
Reversal
Round Character
Verbal Irony
24. A humorous - mocking imitation of a literary work - sometimes sarcastic - but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitation
Dramatic Irony
Symbol
Situational Irony
Parody
25. A reference to another literary work - myth - or work of art - in a short story
Allusion
Dialect
Parody
Complication
26. The grammatical order of words in a sentence
Assonance
Syntax
Symbol
Theme
27. When the opposite of What is expected occurs
Situational Irony
Complication
Fiction
Plot
28. A set of conflicts and crises that make up a story's plot leading up to the climax
Rising Action
Dynamic
Hyperbole
Parody
29. The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative
Dialogue
Foil
Flashback
Situational Irony
30. The action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution
Dynamic
Falling Action
Flat Character
Diction
31. The unified structure of a literary work
Complication
Satire
Plot
Third Person Limited
32. The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe
Onomatopoeia
Parody
Imagery
Verbal Irony
33. The angle from which a story is narrated
Climax
Point of View
Diction
Flat Character
34. A character Who is well developed by the author and who many characteristics
Exposition
Third Person Limited
Round Character
Alliteration
35. A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and makes fun of its stupidities
Third Person Omniscient
Satire
Onomatopoeia
Tone
36. The grammatical order of words in a sentence
Parody
Characterization
Internal Conflict
Syntax
37. A character or force against which the protagonist struggles
Characterization
Complication
Antagonist
Setting
38. The unified structure of a literary work
Style
Plot
Connotation
Third Person Limited
39. When characters say the opposite of what they mean
Syntax
Verbal Irony
Static
Fiction
40. An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself - that stands for something beyond itself
Symbol
First Person
Exposition
Narrator
41. The main character of a literary work
Diction
Diction
Allusion
Protagonist
42. Narrator knows everything about all the characters' thoughts and various situations
Third Person Omniscient
Personification
Theme
Narrator
43. The main character of a literary work
Imagery
Alliteration
Protagonist
Falling Action
44. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words. 'Fetched fresh'
Third Person Omniscient
Assonance
Verbal Irony
Alliteration
45. The point at which a character understands what his or her situation as it really is
Foil
Setting
Parody
Recognition
46. The selection of words in a literary work
Diction
Situational Irony
Alliteration
Third Person Limited
47. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama
Style
Foreshadowing
Dramatic Irony
Fiction
48. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story
Onomatopoeia
Figurative Language
Climax
Flashback
49. 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'
Recognition
Assonance
Personification
Narrator
50. The first stage of a story - in which necessary background information is provided
Exposition
Dialogue
Figurative Language
Flat Character