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Fiction Basics Vocab
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writing-skills
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Dramatic Irony
Denotation
Falling Action
Style
2. A character or force against which the protagonist struggles
Figurative Language
Antagonist
Dialogue
Verbal Irony
3. The point in a plot which introduces the conflict and begins the rising action
Inciting Incident
Verbal Irony
Internal Conflict
Personification
4. The grammatical order of words in a sentence
Connotation
Syntax
Dialogue
Simile
5. When a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means
Metaphor
Satire
Simile
Understatement
6. When a character speaks in ignorance of a situation or event known to the audience or to the other characters
Tone
Situational Irony
Inciting Incident
Dramatic Irony
7. Writing like we speak
Dialect
Recognition
Falling Action
Connotation
8. A parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot
Rising Action
Subplot
Recognition
Metaphor
9. A character who contrasts the main character in a story.
Static
Foil
Flashback
First Person
10. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story
Climax
Point of View
Third Person Omniscient
Denouement
11. The main idea of a short story
Flat Character
Subplot
Metaphor
Theme
12. A character Who is not very well developed; has few identifiable characteristics
Flat Character
Reversal
Figurative Language
Denouement
13. 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
Personification
Metaphor
Denotation
14. A set of conflicts and crises that make up a story's plot leading up to the climax
First Person
Parody
Situational Irony
Rising Action
15. A character who changes
Dynamic
Dramatic Irony
Climax
First Person
16. The main character of a literary work
Protagonist
Reversal
Diction
Setting
17. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play
Dynamic
Complication
Rising Action
Climax
18. A figure of speech involving exaggeration
Hyperbole
Complication
Situational Irony
Rising Action
19. The attitude of a writer toward the subject
Assonance
Diction
Tone
Narrator
20. The resolution of the plot of a literary work. All the loose ends are tied up
Symbol
Syntax
Denouement
Onomatopoeia
21. Narrator knows everything about all the characters' thoughts and various situations
First Person
Tone
Antagonist
Third Person Omniscient
22. The implied meaning of a word
Parody
Internal Conflict
Static
Connotation
23. The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work - to be distinguished from the actual living author
Dialect
Narrator
Setting
Verbal Irony
24. The point in a plot which introduces the conflict and begins the rising action
Dialect
Denouement
Conflict
Inciting Incident
25. The angle from which a story is narrated
Assonance
Flat Character
Point of View
Dynamic
26. A character or force against which the protagonist struggles
Recognition
Antagonist
Metaphor
Connotation
27. 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
Verbal Irony
Climax
Conflict
Connotation
28. An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself - that stands for something beyond itself
Symbol
Parody
Third Person Limited
Theme
29. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist
Simile
Reversal
Tone
Exposition
30. When the opposite of What is expected occurs
Conflict
Parody
Verbal Irony
Situational Irony
31. 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.'
Alliteration
Symbol
Simile
Dramatic Irony
32. The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative
Dialect
Fiction
Style
Flashback
33. The action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution
Foreshadowing
Falling Action
Figurative Language
Point of View
34. When a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means
Personification
Complication
Understatement
Round Character
35. The time and place of a literary work
Connotation
Dynamic
Internal Conflict
Setting
36. The resolution of the plot of a literary work. All the loose ends are tied up
Flashback
Reversal
Denouement
Alliteration
37. The things we can see - hear - taste - feel - or smell in a short story
Imagery
Exposition
Internal Conflict
Metaphor
38. A character who does not change
Static
Dialect
Protagonist
Connotation
39. 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
Verbal Irony
Symbol
Theme
40. The point at which a character understands what his or her situation as it really is
Satire
Recognition
Foreshadowing
Flat Character
41. When characters say the opposite of what they mean
Theme
Verbal Irony
Assonance
Dynamic
42. A humorous - mocking imitation of a literary work - sometimes sarcastic - but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitation
Parody
Allusion
Denouement
Third Person Omniscient
43. A character who changes
Metaphor
Understatement
Dramatic Irony
Dynamic
44. A reference to another literary work - myth - or work of art - in a short story
Rising Action
Dialect
Allusion
Onomatopoeia
45. The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe
Allusion
Imagery
Point of View
Onomatopoeia
46. The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work - to be distinguished from the actual living author
Rising Action
Hyperbole
Narrator
Theme
47. 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.'
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Inciting Incident
Dialect
48. A struggle within a character
Internal Conflict
Point of View
Hyperbole
Style
49. A character who does not change
Assonance
Falling Action
Static
Metaphor
50. When the opposite of What is expected occurs
Conflict
Syntax
Situational Irony
Fiction