Ap Lit Long Fiction

Question 1

An imarinary person that is habits a literary work. They allow readers to study
and explore a range of values, beliefs, assumptions, biases, and cultural norms.

Answer 1

Character

Question 2

reasons behind a characters actions or inactions.

Answer 2

Motives

Question 3

character changes and makes choices that affect the climax or resolution of the narrative.

Answer 3

dynamic character

Question 4

psychological or emotional change

Answer 4

internal change

Question 5

health or wealth change

Answer 5

external change

Question 6

character remains unchanged over the course of a narrative.

Answer 6

flat character

Question 7

Character serves to illuminate, through contrast, the traits, attributes, or values of another character

Answer 7

foil

Question 8

Inconsistencies between the private thoughts of characters and their
actual behavior reveal tension between private and professed values. A character’s competing, conflicting, or inconsistent choices or actions contribute to this in a text.

Answer 8

complexity

Question 9

lesser characters that do not change in a narrative but reflect the values
of the main characters.

Answer 9

minor character

Question 10

includes the social, cultural, and historical situation in the events of the text.

Answer 10

setting

Question 11

the atmosphere surrounding a story and the emotions that the story
evokes in the reader. Any adjective can describe a mood, such as playful, tense, hopeful, dejected , creepy , lonely, amusing, or suspenseful. Every text will have a predominant mood that represents the entire piece. However, longer pieces such as novels can have different moods throughout the piece depending on what is happening in the plot.

Answer 11

mood

Question 12

the place a character inhabits provides information about that character.

Answer 12

environment

Question 13

The arrangement of the parts and sections of a text, the relationship of the
parts to each other, and the sequence in which the text reveals information. These are structural choices made by a writer that contribute to the readers interpretation of a text.

Answer 13

structure

Question 14

highest turning point of the action of a plot in a novel, story, or play;
the point of greatest tension.

Answer 14

climax

Question 15

the sorting out or unraveling of the plot at the end of a novel, story, or play

Answer 15

resolution

Question 16

a moment, encounter, or episode that develops plot or reveals character.

Answer 16

significant scene

Question 17

tension that prevents character from getting what they want.

Answer 17

conflict

Question 18

inner psychological forces

Answer 18

inner conflict

Question 19

outside forces that obstruct a character

Answer 19

external conflict

Question 20

heighten and reflect different sides of primary conflict

Answer 20

secondary conflict

Question 21

Interruption of a work’s chronology to describe or present an incident that
occurred prior to the main time frame of the action.

Answer 21

flashback

Question 22

Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.

Answer 22

forshadowing

Question 23

Latin phrase meaning “in the midst of things;” when a story or scene starts
with a character in the middle of the action. It is more than skipping unnecessary backstory. It starts somewhere other than the natural starting point in the story.

Answer 23

in medias res

Question 24

a method of narration that describes happenings in the flow of thoughts in
the minds of the characters. This style of writing is marked by the sudden rise of thoughts and lack of punctuation. This narration style is associated with the modern novelist and short story writers of the 20th

Answer 24

stream of consciousness

Question 25

Represent contradictions or inconsistencies that introduce nuanced,
ambiguity, or contradiction in a text. This element makes texts more complex.

Answer 25

contrasts

Question 26

can illustrate competing value systems that are in conflict; can create a sense of anticipation and suspense.

Answer 26

significant event

Question 27

Emotional release usually at resolution of conflict.
Unseen characters/events affecting the main character. Unresolved ending that leads to interpretation.

Answer 27

function of conflict

Question 28

the process of recounting a sequence of events; storytelling.

Answer 28

narration

Question 29

a narrator who cannot be trusted: the reader detects biases by noting
which details the narrator chooses to include in the narrative in which they choose to omit. This may influence the reader’s understanding of a character’s motives.

Answer 29

unreliable narrator

Question 30

Comparisons, representations, and associations shift meaning from the literal to
the figurative and invite readers to interpret a text.

Answer 30

figurative language

Question 31

when a material object comes to represent, or stand for, an idea or a
concept. It can represent different things depending on the experiences of a reader or the context of its use in a text, yet some are common and universal.

Answer 31

symbol