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Fiction Basics Vocab
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1. A character who does not change
Verbal Irony
Static
Plot
Denotation
2. Narrator knows everything about all the characters' thoughts and various situations
Third Person Omniscient
Antagonist
Dramatic Irony
Internal Conflict
3. The implied meaning of a word
Connotation
Dynamic
Verbal Irony
Dialogue
4. The attitude of a writer toward the subject
Setting
Tone
Situational Irony
Static
5. A struggle within a character
Style
Third Person Omniscient
Diction
Internal Conflict
6. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play
Characterization
Parody
Figurative Language
Complication
7. The main character of a literary work
Dialect
Protagonist
Figurative Language
Round Character
8. The means by which writers present and reveal character
Onomatopoeia
Round Character
Characterization
Rising Action
9. The point in a plot which introduces the conflict and begins the rising action
Onomatopoeia
Protagonist
Point of View
Inciting Incident
10. The things we can see - hear - taste - feel - or smell in a short story
Imagery
Foreshadowing
Verbal Irony
Dialogue
11. The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative
Flashback
Connotation
Theme
Denotation
12. When a character speaks in ignorance of a situation or event known to the audience or to the other characters
Protagonist
Satire
Dramatic Irony
Dynamic
13. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as. ex. 'My love is a red - red rose -'
Theme
Fiction
Theme
Metaphor
14. The action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution
Hyperbole
Falling Action
Syntax
Figurative Language
15. A character Who is well developed by the author and who many characteristics
Plot
Hyperbole
Round Character
Allusion
16. An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself - that stands for something beyond itself
Denotation
Characterization
Symbol
Personification
17. A character who contrasts the main character in a story.
Characterization
Foil
Third Person Limited
Verbal Irony
18. The implied meaning of a word
Third Person Limited
Round Character
Connotation
Fiction
19. When characters say the opposite of what they mean
Onomatopoeia
Flashback
Verbal Irony
Complication
20. The resolution of the plot of a literary work. All the loose ends are tied up
Plot
Verbal Irony
Denouement
Allusion
21. A character who does not change
Imagery
Subplot
Climax
Static
22. An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself - that stands for something beyond itself
Symbol
Denouement
Conflict
Hyperbole
23. The grammatical order of words in a sentence
Syntax
Foreshadowing
Complication
Dialogue
24. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words. 'Fetched fresh'
Dialect
Style
Inciting Incident
Alliteration
25. When a character speaks in ignorance of a situation or event known to the audience or to the other characters
Inciting Incident
Dramatic Irony
Dialogue
Foreshadowing
26. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story
Climax
Assonance
Dynamic
Falling Action
27. The main character of a literary work
Plot
Connotation
First Person
Protagonist
28. A parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot
Subplot
Dialect
Connotation
Third Person Limited
29. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words. 'Fetched fresh'
Subplot
Alliteration
Round Character
Rising Action
30. A set of conflicts and crises that make up a story's plot leading up to the climax
Dialect
Style
Rising Action
Onomatopoeia
31. The dictionary meaning of a word
Style
Internal Conflict
Denotation
Inciting Incident
32. A figure of speech involving exaggeration
Hyperbole
Characterization
Assonance
Parody
33. 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
Hyperbole
Figurative Language
Third Person Omniscient
Assonance
34. When the opposite of What is expected occurs
Inciting Incident
Recognition
Allusion
Situational Irony
35. Narrator is not a character - but sees the world through only one character's eyes and thoughts
Third Person Limited
Falling Action
Protagonist
Third Person Omniscient
36. Writing like we speak
Figurative Language
Dialect
Setting
Third Person Limited
37. A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and makes fun of its stupidities
Syntax
Fiction
Onomatopoeia
Satire
38. A character who contrasts the main character in a story.
Dialect
Foil
Subplot
Dynamic
39. 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.'
Exposition
Simile
Antagonist
Style
40. Hints of What is to come in the action of a story
Denotation
Foreshadowing
Allusion
Imagery
41. A reference to another literary work - myth - or work of art - in a short story
Alliteration
Alliteration
Third Person Omniscient
Allusion
42. The point at which a character understands what his or her situation as it really is
Verbal Irony
Flashback
Recognition
Metaphor
43. 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
Symbol
Falling Action
Denotation
Figurative Language
44. The selection of words in a literary work
Denotation
Understatement
Diction
Falling Action
45. 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
Static
Characterization
Inciting Incident
Style
46. The unified structure of a literary work
Dynamic
Symbol
Plot
Reversal
47. The time and place of a literary work
Diction
Syntax
Setting
Hyperbole
48. Hints of What is to come in the action of a story
Personification
Figurative Language
Foreshadowing
Symbol
49. The unified structure of a literary work
Conflict
Plot
Dialogue
Figurative Language
50. The things we can see - hear - taste - feel - or smell in a short story
Denotation
Onomatopoeia
Imagery
First Person
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