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Fiction Basics Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A character who changes
Third Person Omniscient
Verbal Irony
Dynamic
Diction
2. Narrator knows everything about all the characters' thoughts and various situations
Onomatopoeia
Third Person Omniscient
Understatement
Antagonist
3. The main character of a literary work
Point of View
Style
Narrator
Protagonist
4. A character Who is well developed by the author and who many characteristics
Characterization
Round Character
Simile
Dialogue
5. When a character speaks in ignorance of a situation or event known to the audience or to the other characters
Static
Allusion
Subplot
Dramatic Irony
6. The grammatical order of words in a sentence
Static
Falling Action
Connotation
Syntax
7. A character who changes
Theme
Dynamic
Onomatopoeia
Subplot
8. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama
Hyperbole
Understatement
Reversal
Fiction
9. 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
Climax
Symbol
Flat Character
10. When a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means
Figurative Language
Connotation
Dialect
Understatement
11. The main idea of a short story
Characterization
Theme
Symbol
Climax
12. The dictionary meaning of a word
Simile
Characterization
Plot
Denotation
13. 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'
Style
Assonance
Dialect
Recognition
14. The things we can see - hear - taste - feel - or smell in a short story
Flat Character
Diction
Style
Imagery
15. A parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot
Reversal
Subplot
Diction
First Person
16. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play
Personification
Complication
Protagonist
Syntax
17. The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe
Onomatopoeia
Protagonist
Foreshadowing
Syntax
18. The first stage of a story - in which necessary background information is provided
Theme
Diction
Exposition
Syntax
19. Point of view in which the narrator is a character or an observer
First Person
Subplot
Narrator
Fiction
20. Giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects
Assonance
Conflict
Personification
Point of View
21. An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself - that stands for something beyond itself
Symbol
Dynamic
Tone
Personification
22. The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative
Climax
First Person
Static
Flashback
23. A figure of speech involving exaggeration
Hyperbole
Imagery
Theme
Internal Conflict
24. A struggle within a character
Dynamic
Internal Conflict
Foil
Connotation
25. The angle from which a story is narrated
Point of View
Style
Flashback
Complication
26. The angle from which a story is narrated
Setting
Style
Point of View
Theme
27. Hints of What is to come in the action of a story
Exposition
Foreshadowing
Personification
Third Person Omniscient
28. The action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution
Understatement
Denouement
Metaphor
Falling Action
29. The point at which a character understands what his or her situation as it really is
Connotation
Falling Action
Complication
Recognition
30. A character Who is not very well developed; has few identifiable characteristics
Flat Character
Syntax
Protagonist
Recognition
31. The point in a plot which introduces the conflict and begins the rising action
Denotation
Tone
Inciting Incident
Diction
32. The main idea of a short story
Theme
Rising Action
Understatement
Round Character
33. A humorous - mocking imitation of a literary work - sometimes sarcastic - but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitation
Third Person Omniscient
Parody
Round Character
Understatement
34. When the opposite of What is expected occurs
Complication
Situational Irony
Figurative Language
Alliteration
35. The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work - to be distinguished from the actual living author
Narrator
Tone
Setting
Protagonist
36. When a character speaks in ignorance of a situation or event known to the audience or to the other characters
Flashback
Fiction
Rising Action
Dramatic Irony
37. Point of view in which the narrator is a character or an observer
Antagonist
Foil
Understatement
First Person
38. The first stage of a story - in which necessary background information is provided
Recognition
Subplot
Exposition
Reversal
39. The point at which a character understands what his or her situation as it really is
Imagery
Recognition
Dynamic
Figurative Language
40. The means by which writers present and reveal character
Hyperbole
Characterization
Flashback
Dramatic Irony
41. The things we can see - hear - taste - feel - or smell in a short story
Imagery
Internal Conflict
Flashback
Foil
42. The means by which writers present and reveal character
Dialogue
Third Person Omniscient
Connotation
Characterization
43. A character who does not change
Allusion
Style
Setting
Static
44. The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative
Figurative Language
Denotation
Flashback
Onomatopoeia
45. The selection of words in a literary work
Diction
Setting
Characterization
Exposition
46. The conversation of characters in a literary work
Complication
Dialogue
Falling Action
Assonance
47. When characters say the opposite of what they mean
Verbal Irony
Static
Situational Irony
Inciting Incident
48. A set of conflicts and crises that make up a story's plot leading up to the climax
Plot
Metaphor
Reversal
Rising Action
49. When the opposite of What is expected occurs
Diction
Situational Irony
Understatement
Verbal Irony
50. 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
Round Character
Figurative Language
Denotation
Theme