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Fiction Basics Vocab
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1. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play
Onomatopoeia
Complication
Foil
Assonance
2. The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work - to be distinguished from the actual living author
Foil
Narrator
Understatement
Dynamic
3. The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe
Satire
Style
Onomatopoeia
Connotation
4. The main idea of a short story
Simile
Diction
Connotation
Theme
5. The attitude of a writer toward the subject
Theme
Narrator
Tone
Simile
6. The grammatical order of words in a sentence
Personification
Antagonist
Syntax
Understatement
7. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words. 'Fetched fresh'
Protagonist
Personification
Flat Character
Alliteration
8. A humorous - mocking imitation of a literary work - sometimes sarcastic - but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitation
Dialect
Situational Irony
Theme
Parody
9. Narrator is not a character - but sees the world through only one character's eyes and thoughts
Complication
Characterization
Third Person Limited
First Person
10. A character who changes
Third Person Omniscient
Dynamic
Verbal Irony
Connotation
11. When a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means
Third Person Limited
Conflict
Symbol
Understatement
12. When the opposite of What is expected occurs
Situational Irony
Simile
Imagery
Satire
13. A character Who is not very well developed; has few identifiable characteristics
Foil
Flat Character
Flashback
First Person
14. The unified structure of a literary work
Imagery
Figurative Language
Plot
Tone
15. The angle from which a story is narrated
Point of View
Understatement
Flat Character
Reversal
16. A character or force against which the protagonist struggles
Metaphor
Internal Conflict
Antagonist
Recognition
17. The dictionary meaning of a word
Diction
Denotation
Internal Conflict
Reversal
18. A figure of speech involving exaggeration
Hyperbole
Complication
Climax
Denouement
19. The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe
Conflict
Onomatopoeia
Style
Characterization
20. A set of conflicts and crises that make up a story's plot leading up to the climax
Diction
Rising Action
Theme
Protagonist
21. A character who changes
Allusion
Hyperbole
Recognition
Dynamic
22. When the opposite of What is expected occurs
Situational Irony
Figurative Language
Connotation
Protagonist
23. The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work - to be distinguished from the actual living author
Allusion
Protagonist
Connotation
Narrator
24. A figure of speech involving exaggeration
Narrator
Hyperbole
Third Person Limited
Tone
25. The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative
Round Character
Flashback
Theme
First Person
26. When characters say the opposite of what they mean
Third Person Limited
Reversal
Verbal Irony
Dynamic
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'
Assonance
Complication
Diction
Antagonist
28. When a character speaks in ignorance of a situation or event known to the audience or to the other characters
Personification
Rising Action
Syntax
Dramatic Irony
29. A humorous - mocking imitation of a literary work - sometimes sarcastic - but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitation
Foil
Parody
Static
Recognition
30. The action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution
Falling Action
Alliteration
Connotation
Verbal Irony
31. The things we can see - hear - taste - feel - or smell in a short story
Protagonist
Foreshadowing
Dynamic
Imagery
32. A character or force against which the protagonist struggles
Falling Action
Antagonist
Static
Third Person Limited
33. 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.'
Foil
Simile
Hyperbole
Complication
34. The conversation of characters in a literary work
Round Character
Foil
Dialogue
Tone
35. A reference to another literary work - myth - or work of art - in a short story
Allusion
Point of View
Antagonist
Parody
36. Giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects
Narrator
Dialogue
Personification
Symbol
37. The conversation of characters in a literary work
Imagery
Dialogue
Tone
Allusion
38. The action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution
Falling Action
Round Character
Parody
Foil
39. The means by which writers present and reveal character
Flashback
Characterization
Internal Conflict
Foil
40. The resolution of the plot of a literary work. All the loose ends are tied up
Dialogue
Exposition
Denouement
Complication
41. A struggle within a character
Denouement
Internal Conflict
Inciting Incident
Climax
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
Protagonist
Diction
Round Character
Figurative Language
43. Narrator is not a character - but sees the world through only one character's eyes and thoughts
Third Person Limited
Complication
Foil
Figurative Language
44. Writing like we speak
Parody
Dramatic Irony
Tone
Dialect
45. A parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot
Subplot
Reversal
Symbol
Connotation
46. A character who does not change
Static
Simile
Third Person Omniscient
Diction
47. The grammatical order of words in a sentence
Syntax
Reversal
Connotation
Flat Character
48. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as. ex. 'My love is a red - red rose -'
Falling Action
Rising Action
Metaphor
Theme
49. A struggle within a character
Static
Simile
Internal Conflict
Onomatopoeia
50. The main idea of a short story
Connotation
Symbol
Theme
Parody
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