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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The point in a plot which introduces the conflict and begins the rising action
Setting
Climax
Verbal Irony
Inciting Incident
2. The means by which writers present and reveal character
Characterization
Tone
Antagonist
Dramatic Irony
3. The implied meaning of a word
Style
Setting
Connotation
Alliteration
4. The resolution of the plot of a literary work. All the loose ends are tied up
Symbol
Denouement
Dialect
Third Person Limited
5. The conversation of characters in a literary work
Dialogue
Simile
Flashback
Style
6. The things we can see - hear - taste - feel - or smell in a short story
Exposition
Imagery
Recognition
Foreshadowing
7. The first stage of a story - in which necessary background information is provided
Flat Character
Complication
Denotation
Exposition
8. The unified structure of a literary work
Narrator
Understatement
Plot
Third Person Limited
9. 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.'
Fiction
Personification
Third Person Omniscient
Simile
10. The things we can see - hear - taste - feel - or smell in a short story
Round Character
Imagery
Setting
Situational Irony
11. The main idea of a short story
Falling Action
Theme
Parody
Situational Irony
12. 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
Imagery
Round Character
Onomatopoeia
13. The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe
Onomatopoeia
Diction
Theme
Alliteration
14. The action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution
Satire
Connotation
Foil
Falling Action
15. Narrator knows everything about all the characters' thoughts and various situations
Denouement
Dialogue
Syntax
Third Person Omniscient
16. When the opposite of What is expected occurs
Characterization
Rising Action
Inciting Incident
Situational Irony
17. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama
Fiction
Understatement
Tone
Point of View
18. Giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects
Personification
Dynamic
Rising Action
Reversal
19. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story
Climax
Allusion
Figurative Language
Reversal
20. Hints of What is to come in the action of a story
Metaphor
Foreshadowing
Recognition
Situational Irony
21. A parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot
Rising Action
Hyperbole
Allusion
Subplot
22. The dictionary meaning of a word
Tone
Dialect
Denotation
Imagery
23. The point in a plot which introduces the conflict and begins the rising action
Connotation
Rising Action
Third Person Limited
Inciting Incident
24. A set of conflicts and crises that make up a story's plot leading up to the climax
Connotation
Foil
Rising Action
Characterization
25. Writing like we speak
Dialect
Protagonist
Syntax
Third Person Limited
26. A character who changes
Dynamic
Dramatic Irony
Theme
Complication
27. A character who does not change
Assonance
Climax
Imagery
Static
28. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story
Situational Irony
Climax
Narrator
Hyperbole
29. The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work - to be distinguished from the actual living author
Internal Conflict
Parody
Narrator
Situational Irony
30. The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative
Denouement
Flashback
Allusion
Point of View
31. 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
Dramatic Irony
Verbal Irony
Tone
32. A parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot
Static
Subplot
Assonance
Simile
33. 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.'
Personification
Dramatic Irony
Exposition
Simile
34. The main idea of a short story
Complication
Theme
Personification
Foil
35. A struggle within a character
Verbal Irony
Internal Conflict
Assonance
Flashback
36. A struggle within a character
Antagonist
Plot
Setting
Internal Conflict
37. An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself - that stands for something beyond itself
Parody
Syntax
Symbol
Figurative Language
38. A reference to another literary work - myth - or work of art - in a short story
Verbal Irony
Falling Action
Allusion
Dialect
39. A character who changes
Foreshadowing
Dialogue
Denotation
Dynamic
40. 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
Complication
Falling Action
Figurative Language
Understatement
41. Narrator is not a character - but sees the world through only one character's eyes and thoughts
Foreshadowing
Third Person Omniscient
Third Person Limited
Denouement
42. A character who contrasts the main character in a story.
Imagery
Foil
Flat Character
First Person
43. The means by which writers present and reveal character
Flat Character
Third Person Omniscient
Characterization
Plot
44. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama
Fiction
Antagonist
Onomatopoeia
Situational Irony
45. Writing like we speak
Figurative Language
Antagonist
Dialect
Complication
46. A character Who is well developed by the author and who many characteristics
Round Character
Falling Action
Third Person Omniscient
Denotation
47. The resolution of the plot of a literary work. All the loose ends are tied up
Point of View
Tone
Denouement
Dramatic Irony
48. A character who does not change
Plot
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Static
49. The time and place of a literary work
Dialect
Setting
Personification
Onomatopoeia
50. 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
Static
Style
Hyperbole
Conflict