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