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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. A character Who is well developed by the author and who many characteristics
Round Character
Syntax
Onomatopoeia
Antagonist
2. The unified structure of a literary work
Foil
Theme
Plot
Flashback
3. A struggle within a character
Fiction
Alliteration
Dialogue
Internal Conflict
4. The attitude of a writer toward the subject
Personification
Tone
Figurative Language
Flashback
5. Writing like we speak
Alliteration
First Person
Conflict
Dialect
6. A set of conflicts and crises that make up a story's plot leading up to the climax
Exposition
Exposition
Rising Action
Third Person Omniscient
7. A figure of speech involving exaggeration
Hyperbole
Parody
Understatement
Subplot
8. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story
Dramatic Irony
Climax
Characterization
Inciting Incident
9. The unified structure of a literary work
Style
Fiction
Plot
Reversal
10. The resolution of the plot of a literary work. All the loose ends are tied up
Static
Denouement
Protagonist
Antagonist
11. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama
Conflict
Third Person Limited
Fiction
Theme
12. The time and place of a literary work
Verbal Irony
Dialogue
Flat Character
Setting
13. Hints of What is to come in the action of a story
Personification
Antagonist
Foreshadowing
Symbol
14. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play
Falling Action
Complication
Onomatopoeia
Antagonist
15. The grammatical order of words in a sentence
Static
Inciting Incident
Syntax
Simile
16. 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.'
Falling Action
Simile
Dramatic Irony
Verbal Irony
17. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama
Fiction
Theme
Third Person Omniscient
Antagonist
18. A character who does not change
Subplot
Metaphor
Static
Flat Character
19. 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
Protagonist
Satire
Subplot
Figurative Language
20. Narrator knows everything about all the characters' thoughts and various situations
Satire
Third Person Omniscient
Denotation
Complication
21. The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe
Alliteration
Verbal Irony
Inciting Incident
Onomatopoeia
22. When characters say the opposite of what they mean
Syntax
Verbal Irony
Complication
Style
23. 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.'
Alliteration
Imagery
Flat Character
Simile
24. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play
Rising Action
Antagonist
Complication
Denotation
25. An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself - that stands for something beyond itself
Assonance
Narrator
Recognition
Symbol
26. The selection of words in a literary work
Dialogue
Flashback
Diction
Narrator
27. A humorous - mocking imitation of a literary work - sometimes sarcastic - but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitation
Understatement
Alliteration
Symbol
Parody
28. A humorous - mocking imitation of a literary work - sometimes sarcastic - but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitation
Flashback
Internal Conflict
Parody
Climax
29. 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
Dialect
Plot
Conflict
Characterization
30. The resolution of the plot of a literary work. All the loose ends are tied up
Internal Conflict
Denouement
Flat Character
Alliteration
31. 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
Understatement
Style
Third Person Limited
Situational Irony
32. The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe
Narrator
Setting
Dialogue
Onomatopoeia
33. The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative
Falling Action
Flashback
Allusion
Narrator
34. The dictionary meaning of a word
Narrator
Denotation
Inciting Incident
Symbol
35. A character or force against which the protagonist struggles
Diction
Antagonist
Point of View
Falling Action
36. A reference to another literary work - myth - or work of art - in a short story
Allusion
Diction
Dialect
Denotation
37. A character Who is not very well developed; has few identifiable characteristics
Protagonist
Tone
Protagonist
Flat Character
38. Hints of What is to come in the action of a story
Foreshadowing
Dramatic Irony
First Person
Flashback
39. When the opposite of What is expected occurs
Point of View
Situational Irony
Antagonist
Third Person Limited
40. The things we can see - hear - taste - feel - or smell in a short story
Denouement
Diction
Imagery
Internal Conflict
41. Giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects
Personification
Fiction
Point of View
Symbol
42. The conversation of characters in a literary work
Complication
Dialogue
Antagonist
Satire
43. The angle from which a story is narrated
Dynamic
Reversal
Tone
Point of View
44. The attitude of a writer toward the subject
Tone
Reversal
Dialogue
Climax
45. The main character of a literary work
Foil
Denouement
Protagonist
Imagery
46. The point at which a character understands what his or her situation as it really is
Characterization
Situational Irony
Denouement
Recognition
47. An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself - that stands for something beyond itself
Verbal Irony
Dialect
Symbol
Tone
48. The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative
Alliteration
Syntax
Third Person Omniscient
Flashback
49. 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
Dynamic
Conflict
Dialect
Recognition
50. When a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means
Understatement
Connotation
Allusion
Protagonist