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