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Fiction Basics Vocab
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1. The resolution of the plot of a literary work. All the loose ends are tied up
Denouement
Allusion
Exposition
Climax
2. The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe
Foreshadowing
Diction
Onomatopoeia
Exposition
3. A character who does not change
Allusion
Flashback
Static
Setting
4. A character who contrasts the main character in a story.
Foil
Allusion
Dialogue
Denotation
5. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story
Dialogue
Climax
Understatement
Tone
6. 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
Hyperbole
Denouement
Narrator
7. A reference to another literary work - myth - or work of art - in a short story
Setting
Allusion
Simile
Foil
8. The point at which a character understands what his or her situation as it really is
Denouement
Characterization
Recognition
Onomatopoeia
9. When a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means
Reversal
Protagonist
Symbol
Understatement
10. The action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution
Falling Action
Dialogue
Antagonist
Style
11. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story
Rising Action
Climax
Imagery
Personification
12. The main character of a literary work
Simile
Round Character
Complication
Protagonist
13. The implied meaning of a word
Climax
Denouement
Figurative Language
Connotation
14. 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
Fiction
Foreshadowing
Syntax
15. The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work - to be distinguished from the actual living author
Fiction
Parody
Narrator
Connotation
16. A character Who is not very well developed; has few identifiable characteristics
Figurative Language
Symbol
Flat Character
Syntax
17. 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'
Subplot
Personification
Assonance
Internal Conflict
18. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words. 'Fetched fresh'
Fiction
Alliteration
Foil
Antagonist
19. The implied meaning of a word
Connotation
Onomatopoeia
Understatement
Conflict
20. The angle from which a story is narrated
Point of View
Fiction
Foreshadowing
Satire
21. A character who does not change
Subplot
Connotation
Static
Connotation
22. Hints of What is to come in the action of a story
Inciting Incident
Figurative Language
Syntax
Foreshadowing
23. Hints of What is to come in the action of a story
Denotation
Dialect
Foreshadowing
Flat Character
24. 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
Recognition
Characterization
Third Person Limited
Figurative Language
25. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as. ex. 'My love is a red - red rose -'
Figurative Language
Symbol
Round Character
Metaphor
26. A set of conflicts and crises that make up a story's plot leading up to the climax
Metaphor
Rising Action
Allusion
Simile
27. 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'
Dialect
Flat Character
Symbol
Assonance
28. The dictionary meaning of a word
Rising Action
Static
Style
Denotation
29. A figure of speech involving exaggeration
Foil
Theme
Hyperbole
First Person
30. Writing like we speak
Climax
Falling Action
Dialect
Allusion
31. The conversation of characters in a literary work
Dialogue
Climax
Allusion
Fiction
32. An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself - that stands for something beyond itself
Antagonist
Syntax
Diction
Symbol
33. The dictionary meaning of a word
Imagery
Parody
Denotation
Rising Action
34. The main character of a literary work
Flashback
Protagonist
Narrator
Setting
35. 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
Allusion
Point of View
Foreshadowing
36. An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself - that stands for something beyond itself
Dynamic
Recognition
Understatement
Symbol
37. The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative
Satire
Denouement
Onomatopoeia
Flashback
38. The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work - to be distinguished from the actual living author
Understatement
Narrator
Dynamic
Simile
39. The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative
Flashback
Static
Subplot
Internal Conflict
40. The point in a plot which introduces the conflict and begins the rising action
Metaphor
Alliteration
Inciting Incident
Personification
41. 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.'
Satire
Foil
Simile
Allusion
42. The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe
Onomatopoeia
Internal Conflict
Syntax
Assonance
43. Point of view in which the narrator is a character or an observer
Conflict
First Person
Exposition
Flashback
44. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist
Reversal
Foil
Foreshadowing
Alliteration
45. A character or force against which the protagonist struggles
Inciting Incident
Antagonist
Plot
Flat Character
46. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama
Rising Action
Fiction
Protagonist
Alliteration
47. When characters say the opposite of what they mean
Conflict
Static
Syntax
Verbal Irony
48. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist
Characterization
Antagonist
Reversal
Dynamic
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
Plot
Conflict
Round Character
Satire
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
Recognition
First Person
Setting
Conflict
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