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