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Fiction Basics Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as. ex. 'My love is a red - red rose -'
Metaphor
Inciting Incident
Denouement
Syntax
2. A character who contrasts the main character in a story.
Dynamic
Foil
Third Person Limited
Plot
3. The main character of a literary work
Symbol
Protagonist
Flashback
Point of View
4. A parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot
Setting
Subplot
Recognition
Allusion
5. 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
Flashback
Figurative Language
Syntax
Climax
6. The main idea of a short story
Assonance
Theme
Third Person Limited
Round Character
7. The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Dialect
Exposition
8. The things we can see - hear - taste - feel - or smell in a short story
Figurative Language
Imagery
Conflict
Alliteration
9. A character who does not change
Dialect
Characterization
Static
Assonance
10. An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself - that stands for something beyond itself
Satire
Complication
Symbol
Round Character
11. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama
Simile
Fiction
Inciting Incident
Recognition
12. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama
Dialogue
Narrator
Internal Conflict
Fiction
13. 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
Verbal Irony
Dynamic
Connotation
14. 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
Conflict
Simile
Style
Understatement
15. A character who changes
Dynamic
Antagonist
Plot
Climax
16. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play
Setting
Complication
Recognition
Allusion
17. When characters say the opposite of what they mean
Climax
Understatement
Verbal Irony
Climax
18. Hints of What is to come in the action of a story
Foreshadowing
Denouement
Tone
Climax
19. The angle from which a story is narrated
Plot
Point of View
Dialogue
Climax
20. A humorous - mocking imitation of a literary work - sometimes sarcastic - but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitation
Parody
Third Person Omniscient
Alliteration
Theme
21. When the opposite of What is expected occurs
Onomatopoeia
Situational Irony
Conflict
Exposition
22. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words. 'Fetched fresh'
Alliteration
Inciting Incident
Diction
Flashback
23. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist
Plot
Dynamic
Third Person Omniscient
Reversal
24. A character who does not change
Tone
Static
Alliteration
Protagonist
25. A set of conflicts and crises that make up a story's plot leading up to the climax
Style
Simile
Rising Action
Complication
26. The action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution
Protagonist
Simile
Understatement
Falling Action
27. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story
Climax
Characterization
Recognition
Simile
28. Writing like we speak
Allusion
Hyperbole
Round Character
Dialect
29. A struggle within a character
Foreshadowing
Reversal
Internal Conflict
Subplot
30. The point in a plot which introduces the conflict and begins the rising action
Third Person Limited
Setting
Conflict
Inciting Incident
31. When a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means
Symbol
Assonance
Static
Understatement
32. The things we can see - hear - taste - feel - or smell in a short story
Flat Character
Foreshadowing
Imagery
Denouement
33. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as. ex. 'My love is a red - red rose -'
Metaphor
Plot
Parody
Connotation
34. The point in a plot which introduces the conflict and begins the rising action
Dramatic Irony
Symbol
Assonance
Inciting Incident
35. Point of view in which the narrator is a character or an observer
Symbol
First Person
Characterization
Satire
36. A character Who is not very well developed; has few identifiable characteristics
Flat Character
Inciting Incident
Understatement
Metaphor
37. Writing like we speak
Situational Irony
Protagonist
Fiction
Dialect
38. The dictionary meaning of a word
Complication
Denotation
Simile
Theme
39. A parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot
Setting
Imagery
Recognition
Subplot
40. The means by which writers present and reveal character
Complication
Dynamic
Characterization
Theme
41. The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work - to be distinguished from the actual living author
Understatement
Third Person Omniscient
Narrator
Dialogue
42. The implied meaning of a word
Connotation
First Person
Inciting Incident
Subplot
43. A struggle within a character
Internal Conflict
Style
Protagonist
Climax
44. Narrator is not a character - but sees the world through only one character's eyes and thoughts
Round Character
Third Person Limited
Metaphor
Subplot
45. The point at which a character understands what his or her situation as it really is
Reversal
Situational Irony
Recognition
Tone
46. 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.'
Antagonist
Assonance
Simile
Assonance
47. A character who contrasts the main character in a story.
Complication
Denotation
Symbol
Foil
48. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story
Climax
Narrator
Inciting Incident
Antagonist
49. The attitude of a writer toward the subject
Parody
Tone
Diction
Parody
50. The grammatical order of words in a sentence
Dynamic
Conflict
Syntax
Denotation