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Fiction Basics Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot
Understatement
Falling Action
Subplot
Figurative Language
2. A character Who is not very well developed; has few identifiable characteristics
Dramatic Irony
Foil
Flat Character
Denouement
3. A character who does not change
Syntax
Situational Irony
Dramatic Irony
Static
4. A character or force against which the protagonist struggles
Parody
Onomatopoeia
Antagonist
Connotation
5. The conversation of characters in a literary work
Connotation
Syntax
Dialogue
Setting
6. A character who does not change
First Person
Round Character
Dialogue
Static
7. The action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution
Foil
Third Person Limited
Denouement
Falling Action
8. The implied meaning of a word
Connotation
Third Person Limited
Satire
Denotation
9. The point in a plot which introduces the conflict and begins the rising action
Foreshadowing
Inciting Incident
Protagonist
Falling Action
10. Hints of What is to come in the action of a story
Foreshadowing
Exposition
Flat Character
Exposition
11. The things we can see - hear - taste - feel - or smell in a short story
Setting
Foreshadowing
Dialogue
Imagery
12. A humorous - mocking imitation of a literary work - sometimes sarcastic - but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitation
Narrator
Plot
Parody
Denotation
13. The angle from which a story is narrated
Point of View
Situational Irony
Allusion
Diction
14. The implied meaning of a word
Inciting Incident
Tone
Connotation
Plot
15. When characters say the opposite of what they mean
Tone
Verbal Irony
Onomatopoeia
Foil
16. 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
Foreshadowing
Style
Inciting Incident
Flashback
17. The means by which writers present and reveal character
Dialect
Point of View
Syntax
Characterization
18. A character who contrasts the main character in a story.
Imagery
Understatement
Foil
Denotation
19. The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative
Flashback
Tone
Plot
Reversal
20. The means by which writers present and reveal character
Reversal
Allusion
First Person
Characterization
21. The first stage of a story - in which necessary background information is provided
Dialogue
Tone
Exposition
Complication
22. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words. 'Fetched fresh'
Alliteration
Imagery
Theme
Denouement
23. 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
Falling Action
Static
Symbol
24. The resolution of the plot of a literary work. All the loose ends are tied up
Third Person Omniscient
Denouement
Exposition
Tone
25. The attitude of a writer toward the subject
Foil
Tone
Denotation
Dynamic
26. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play
Denouement
Tone
Complication
Imagery
27. The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work - to be distinguished from the actual living author
Recognition
Point of View
Dynamic
Narrator
28. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist
Dialogue
Denotation
Reversal
Flashback
29. A set of conflicts and crises that make up a story's plot leading up to the climax
Rising Action
Denouement
Flashback
Static
30. A character Who is well developed by the author and who many characteristics
Round Character
Alliteration
Denotation
Third Person Limited
31. Narrator knows everything about all the characters' thoughts and various situations
Third Person Omniscient
Climax
Internal Conflict
Flat Character
32. The time and place of a literary work
First Person
Connotation
Tone
Setting
33. A struggle within a character
Simile
Plot
Internal Conflict
Flashback
34. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words. 'Fetched fresh'
Hyperbole
Fiction
Alliteration
Falling Action
35. A character who contrasts the main character in a story.
Foil
Recognition
Conflict
Theme
36. The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative
Dynamic
Metaphor
Inciting Incident
Flashback
37. 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
Syntax
Dynamic
Understatement
38. The unified structure of a literary work
Plot
Understatement
Flat Character
Diction
39. Writing like we speak
Theme
Imagery
Plot
Dialect
40. A character who changes
Imagery
Setting
Dynamic
Satire
41. 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
Denotation
Simile
Diction
42. The point at which a character understands what his or her situation as it really is
Falling Action
Recognition
Third Person Omniscient
Plot
43. 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'
Round Character
Assonance
Rising Action
Personification
44. The resolution of the plot of a literary work. All the loose ends are tied up
Denouement
Fiction
Dialect
Dialogue
45. When the opposite of What is expected occurs
Understatement
Exposition
Situational Irony
Climax
46. The grammatical order of words in a sentence
Onomatopoeia
Figurative Language
Imagery
Syntax
47. When a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means
Conflict
Allusion
Exposition
Understatement
48. The main character of a literary work
Imagery
Protagonist
Alliteration
Figurative Language
49. The main character of a literary work
Inciting Incident
Protagonist
Dialect
Flashback
50. 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'
Connotation
Plot
Assonance
Complication