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