Academic Language Fiction

Question 1

Whats a plot?

Answer 1

Series of related events that make up a story

Question 2

What is the subplot

Answer 2

A minor plot that relates in some way to the story

Question 3

What is a Inciting Incident

Answer 3

The event in the story that causes the conflict.

Question 4

Whats the Conflict/ problem/ issue?

Answer 4

A strugle between two opposing forces (external and interrnal)

Question 5

Whats a external conflict

Answer 5

Occurs between a chapter and another chapter, society or a force of nature

Question 6

Internal conflict

Answer 6

Internal conflict occurs within one character (like emotinal doubts)

Question 7

Resalution

Answer 7

Conflict is resolved and the story is brought to a close

Question 8

Climax

Answer 8

Point in the story that creats the greatest suspense or intrest

Question 8

Exposition

Answer 8

Introduction of a story or book, when the character and setting is first described

Question 9

Theme/central Idea

Answer 9

An insight or idea about life

Question 10

Protagonist

Answer 10

Main character in piece of litrature

Question 11

Antagonist

Answer 11

Another character opposing the protagonist

Question 12

Mood

Answer 12

overalll feeling of a work of literature

Question 13

Forshadowing

Answer 13

Use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the story

Question 14

Symbolism

Answer 14

Person place or event that has meaning in itself

Question 15

Point of view

Answer 15

A perspective

Question 16

First person

Answer 16

Is from the perspective of a character told using pronouns like “ “I,” “me,” “my,” “we,” “us,” or “our.”

Question 17

Second person

Answer 17

Narrator uses “you” to decribe the readers thoughts, actions, and backround or may speak derrectly to the audience using “you” “you’re” and “your”

Question 18

Third person

Answer 18

Is narrated by an external narrator (He, She, Him, Her, They)

Question 19

Third person omniscient

Answer 19

The narrator is all knowing and has access to the thoughts, feelings and actions of the character

Question 20

Third person limited

Answer 20

The narrator only has access to the thoughts and emotions of one character, usually following that character through the story and describing events that they experience.

Question 21

Characterization

Answer 21

the way a writer reveals the personality of a character

Question 22

-S- teal

Answer 22

What he/she Says (Allowing us to hear the character speak)

Question 23

S-T-eal

Answer 23

What he/she Thinks (Reveal the character’s thoughts and feelings)

Question 24

St-E-al

Answer 24

What Everyone says about him/her (Showing how others react to the character)

Question 25

Ste-A-l

Answer 25

What his/her Actions are (Showing the character in action/what they do)

Question 26

Stea-L-

Answer 26

What he/she Looks like (Describing the appearance of the character)

Question 27

Figurative language

Answer 27

figures of speech not literally true

Question 28

Imagery

Answer 28

language that appeals to the five senses

Question 29

Alliteration

Answer 29

the repetition of consonant sounds in two or more close words or syllables (Peter Piper picked a peck of…)

Question 30

Metaphors

Answer 30

comparison between two unlike things

Question 31

Simites

Answer 31

comparison between two unlike things using like or as

Question 32

Idioms

Answer 32

a phrase that means something different that what is actually said

Question 33

Onomatopoeia

Answer 33

a word associated with a sound EX: slam, sizzle

Question 34

Personification

Answer 34

the act of giving human characteristics to something not human

Question 35

irony

Answer 35

difference between what is meant and what is said

Question 36

Verbal irony

Answer 36

the difference between what is said and what is written

Question 37

Situational irony

Answer 37

occurs when what happens is very different from what we expected would happen

Question 38

Dramatic irony

Answer 38

occurs when the audience or the reader knows something the character does not