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