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