Elements Of A Fiction/Poetry

Question 0

What is the atmosphere or feeling of a literally work?

Answer 0

Mood

Question 1

What is the time and place in which a a story takes place?

Answer 1

Setting

Question 2

What are the individuals whose thoughts and actions make up a story?

Answer 2

Characters

Question 3

What is the central, focal figure in a work of fiction?

Answer 3

Protagonist

Question 4

What is a character or force that works against the protagonist,creating obstacles?

Answer 4

Antagonist

Question 5

What are characters that are fully developed with both positive qualities and flaws?

Answer 5

Round Characters

Question 6

What are characters that do not undergo any change from the story’s inception to its conclusion?

Answer 6

Dynamic Character

Question 7

What are characters that do not undergo any change from the story’s inception to its conclusion?

Answer 7

Static Character

Question 8

What are characters that are stereotypical and one-dimensional?

Answer 8

Flat Character

Question 9

What are methods used by author to develop a character?

Answer 9

Characterization

Question 10

What is the the arrangement, or sequence, of events within a story?

Answer 10

Plot

Question 11

What is an obstacle, struggle or controversy that the protagonist must resolve to overcome?

Answer 11

Conflict

Question 12

What is a conflict in which the protagonist has a problem with another character?

Answer 12

Character vs. Character

Question 13

What is a conflict in which the protagonist must struggle against a harsh environment or natural disaster?

Answer 13

Character vs. Nature

Question 14

What is a conflict in which the protagonist faces a problem with a part or whole of society?

Answer 14

Character vs. Society

Question 15

What is a conflict in which the protagonist is at odds with an internal problem, such as fear, shyness or guilt?

Answer 15

Character vs. Self

Question 16

What is a conflict in which the protagonist struggles with a force that seems beyond the characters control?

Answer 16

Character vs. Fate

Question 17

What in fiction, the plot normally begins with?

Answer 17

Exposition

Question 18

What is the use of clues early in a story to give hints about events that will happen later?

Answer 18

Foreshadowing

Question 19

What is a series of events and conflict involving the story’s characters that leads to the climax?

Answer 19

Rising Action

Question 20

What is the turning point of a story?

Answer 20

Climax

Question 21

What is also referred to as a denouement?

Answer 21

Falling Action

Question 22

What is the conclusion of the story?

Answer 22

Resolution

Question 23

What is an unexpected twist in the resolution?

Answer 23

Situational irony

Question 24

What is the idea or ideas that weave the characters, setting and events together?

Answer 24

Theme

Question 25

What is a second story within the main plot of a story?

Answer 25

Subplot

Question 26

What is the repetition of similar sounds at the end of a word?

Answer 26

Rhyme

Question 27

What is a group of lines that are linked together?

Answer 27

Stanza

Question 28

What is the pattern of end rhyme in a poem?

Answer 28

Rhyme scheme

Question 29

What is a sound element of poetry it is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables?

Answer 29

Rhythm

Question 30

What is a repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables?

Answer 30

Meter

Question 36

What is a pair of rhyming lines in a poem?

Answer 36

Couplet

Question 37

What is a four line poem or stanza, usually united by meter and rhyme?

Answer 37

Quatrain

Question 38

What is the deliberate use and arrangement of words to create a special effect?

Answer 38

Figurative language

Question 39

What is a comparison of two things that have in common?

Answer 39

Simile

Question 40

What is a comparison of two things that have a quality in common?

Answer 40

Metaphor

Question 41

What is a metaphor that is developed over several lines of writing or over the course of an entire poem?

Answer 41

Extended metaphor

Question 42

What is the use of a person,place or object to stand for something other than itself?

Answer 42

Symbolism

Question 43

What is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words?

Answer 43

Alliteration

Question 44

What the repetition of a consonant sound in several words of a line or stanza?

Answer 44

Consonance

Question 45

What is the repetition of a vowel sound in several words of a line or stanza?

Answer 45

Assonance

Question 46

What is a five line poem that is often humerous?

Answer 46

Limerick

Question 47

What is a 14 line rhyming poem written in iambic pentameter?

Answer 47

Sonnet

Question 48

What a meter in which each unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable?

Answer 48

Iambic pentameter

Question 49

What is unrhymed iambic pentameter?

Answer 49

Black verse

Question 50

What is poetry that does not follow a regular pattern of rhyme or rhythm?

Answer 50

Free verse

Question 51

What is poetry that tells stories?

Answer 51

Narrative poetry

Question 52

What is a long narrative poem that tells of the adventures of a hero of historic or legendary importance?

Answer 52

Epic

Question 53

What is a narrative poem that usually tells a story with tragic overtones and a dramatic conclusion?

Answer 53

Ballad

Question 54

What is poetry that focuses on the emotions or thoughts of a single speaker?

Answer 54

Lyric poetry

Question 55

What is extreme exaggeration used for effect?

Answer 55

Hyperbole

Question 56

What is an animal object or idea that takes on human qualities?

Answer 56

Personification