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