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Fiction Basics Vocab
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1. When the opposite of What is expected occurs
Situational Irony
Conflict
Dramatic Irony
Climax
2. The time and place of a literary work
Round Character
Inciting Incident
Setting
Allusion
3. Hints of What is to come in the action of a story
Situational Irony
Foreshadowing
Dialect
Hyperbole
4. A figure of speech involving exaggeration
Round Character
Hyperbole
Rising Action
Internal Conflict
5. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama
Fiction
Figurative Language
Style
Exposition
6. The selection of words in a literary work
Diction
Onomatopoeia
Foreshadowing
Third Person Limited
7. When a character speaks in ignorance of a situation or event known to the audience or to the other characters
Plot
Static
Dramatic Irony
Denouement
8. Narrator knows everything about all the characters' thoughts and various situations
Metaphor
Third Person Omniscient
Setting
Static
9. 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'
Flashback
Foil
Hyperbole
Assonance
10. A struggle within a character
Figurative Language
Theme
Internal Conflict
Third Person Omniscient
11. The angle from which a story is narrated
Complication
Tone
Point of View
Denouement
12. The point at which a character understands what his or her situation as it really is
Recognition
Connotation
Round Character
Hyperbole
13. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story
Climax
Dialect
Connotation
Flashback
14. A character who changes
Point of View
Dynamic
Foreshadowing
Flat Character
15. When a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means
Denotation
Personification
Understatement
Verbal Irony
16. The implied meaning of a word
Subplot
Connotation
Foil
Third Person Limited
17. The things we can see - hear - taste - feel - or smell in a short story
Onomatopoeia
Flashback
Imagery
Connotation
18. The selection of words in a literary work
Diction
Setting
Antagonist
Situational Irony
19. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play
Satire
Metaphor
Round Character
Complication
20. The first stage of a story - in which necessary background information is provided
Complication
Narrator
Exposition
Metaphor
21. A figure of speech involving exaggeration
Connotation
Denouement
Hyperbole
Personification
22. The time and place of a literary work
Setting
Protagonist
Complication
Subplot
23. A character Who is not very well developed; has few identifiable characteristics
Imagery
Flat Character
Alliteration
Conflict
24. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play
Dramatic Irony
Complication
Fiction
Situational Irony
25. The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative
Point of View
Flashback
Dynamic
Inciting Incident
26. When the opposite of What is expected occurs
Syntax
Situational Irony
Understatement
Conflict
27. Narrator knows everything about all the characters' thoughts and various situations
Foreshadowing
Point of View
Dramatic Irony
Third Person Omniscient
28. The action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution
Foreshadowing
Falling Action
Metaphor
Static
29. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words. 'Fetched fresh'
Foil
Alliteration
Point of View
Foil
30. Writing like we speak
Inciting Incident
Satire
First Person
Dialect
31. The unified structure of a literary work
Plot
Denouement
Simile
Verbal Irony
32. 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
Plot
Situational Irony
Connotation
33. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama
Reversal
Style
Personification
Fiction
34. A set of conflicts and crises that make up a story's plot leading up to the climax
Foil
Theme
Static
Rising Action
35. The grammatical order of words in a sentence
Syntax
Point of View
Allusion
Internal Conflict
36. 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
Antagonist
Understatement
Style
37. The grammatical order of words in a sentence
Syntax
Hyperbole
Situational Irony
Verbal Irony
38. The attitude of a writer toward the subject
Tone
Dramatic Irony
Figurative Language
Denotation
39. When characters say the opposite of what they mean
Protagonist
Verbal Irony
Third Person Omniscient
Reversal
40. The action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution
Assonance
Characterization
Dialect
Falling Action
41. The unified structure of a literary work
Alliteration
Flashback
Flat Character
Plot
42. The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe
Onomatopoeia
Antagonist
Metaphor
Symbol
43. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as. ex. 'My love is a red - red rose -'
Denouement
Foil
Metaphor
Dialogue
44. A character who contrasts the main character in a story.
Theme
Antagonist
Foil
Third Person Limited
45. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story
Rising Action
Climax
Antagonist
Theme
46. Point of view in which the narrator is a character or an observer
Conflict
First Person
Flashback
Third Person Omniscient
47. 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
Exposition
Denouement
Narrator
48. A humorous - mocking imitation of a literary work - sometimes sarcastic - but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitation
Flashback
Dialogue
Parody
Setting
49. A character Who is not very well developed; has few identifiable characteristics
Point of View
Flat Character
Internal Conflict
Parody
50. Point of view in which the narrator is a character or an observer
First Person
Hyperbole
Characterization
Reversal
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