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