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Fiction Basics Vocab
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1. The means by which writers present and reveal character
Recognition
Characterization
Third Person Limited
Connotation
2. The time and place of a literary work
Hyperbole
Dramatic Irony
Flashback
Setting
3. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist
Situational Irony
Reversal
Understatement
Narrator
4. The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe
Allusion
Onomatopoeia
Falling Action
Understatement
5. The main idea of a short story
Dynamic
Connotation
Theme
Imagery
6. A character who changes
Dialogue
Dynamic
Alliteration
Plot
7. The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative
Flashback
Third Person Omniscient
Complication
Diction
8. The implied meaning of a word
Imagery
Connotation
Subplot
Diction
9. A character Who is well developed by the author and who many characteristics
Fiction
Round Character
Plot
Connotation
10. The attitude of a writer toward the subject
Imagery
Exposition
Round Character
Tone
11. The point in a plot which introduces the conflict and begins the rising action
Theme
Hyperbole
Satire
Inciting Incident
12. A parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot
Complication
Subplot
Antagonist
Flat Character
13. When the opposite of What is expected occurs
Situational Irony
Parody
Denouement
Symbol
14. A set of conflicts and crises that make up a story's plot leading up to the climax
Static
Foil
Reversal
Rising Action
15. A character who contrasts the main character in a story.
First Person
Dialogue
Rising Action
Foil
16. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist
Subplot
Flat Character
Onomatopoeia
Reversal
17. A character or force against which the protagonist struggles
Rising Action
Hyperbole
Inciting Incident
Antagonist
18. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words. 'Fetched fresh'
Verbal Irony
Alliteration
Internal Conflict
Denouement
19. The selection of words in a literary work
Rising Action
First Person
Reversal
Diction
20. Narrator knows everything about all the characters' thoughts and various situations
Third Person Omniscient
Reversal
Exposition
Inciting Incident
21. The angle from which a story is narrated
Complication
Point of View
Plot
First Person
22. When the opposite of What is expected occurs
Dynamic
Situational Irony
Assonance
Third Person Limited
23. The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work - to be distinguished from the actual living author
Fiction
Narrator
Diction
Understatement
24. Narrator is not a character - but sees the world through only one character's eyes and thoughts
Third Person Limited
Dynamic
Rising Action
Characterization
25. A struggle within a character
Internal Conflict
Inciting Incident
Flat Character
Situational Irony
26. The dictionary meaning of a word
Dialect
Climax
Denotation
Understatement
27. A reference to another literary work - myth - or work of art - in a short story
Allusion
Protagonist
Dramatic Irony
Connotation
28. 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
Static
Style
Allusion
Assonance
29. Point of view in which the narrator is a character or an observer
Dialect
Connotation
Hyperbole
First Person
30. A parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot
Denouement
Onomatopoeia
Subplot
Figurative Language
31. A figure of speech involving exaggeration
Narrator
Hyperbole
Personification
Foil
32. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play
Understatement
Alliteration
Complication
Foil
33. When characters say the opposite of what they mean
Verbal Irony
Static
Recognition
Metaphor
34. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama
Rising Action
Fiction
Plot
Dynamic
35. The point at which a character understands what his or her situation as it really is
Simile
Personification
Recognition
Point of View
36. The selection of words in a literary work
Denotation
Dialogue
Parody
Diction
37. A character who does not change
Static
Fiction
Symbol
Exposition
38. An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself - that stands for something beyond itself
Verbal Irony
Symbol
Setting
Personification
39. 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
Imagery
Subplot
Conflict
Denotation
40. Writing like we speak
Falling Action
Flat Character
Dialect
Subplot
41. The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative
Foreshadowing
Flashback
Figurative Language
Point of View
42. 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
Rising Action
Diction
First Person
43. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story
Climax
Fiction
Setting
Tone
44. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as. ex. 'My love is a red - red rose -'
Symbol
Metaphor
Figurative Language
Alliteration
45. A character or force against which the protagonist struggles
Style
Reversal
Subplot
Antagonist
46. The grammatical order of words in a sentence
Syntax
Allusion
Dynamic
Satire
47. The means by which writers present and reveal character
Inciting Incident
Diction
Metaphor
Characterization
48. The unified structure of a literary work
Denotation
Dialect
First Person
Plot
49. A character who contrasts the main character in a story.
Theme
Situational Irony
Third Person Limited
Foil
50. The main character of a literary work
Flashback
Denotation
Protagonist
Hyperbole
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