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