Elements Of Fiction

Question 1

What are the components of plot

Answer 1

Exposition. Conflict. Rising Action. Climax. Denouement.

Question 2

What are the components of setting

Answer 2

Locale. Milieu. Atmosphere.

Question 3

What are the types of character

Answer 3

Protagonist. Antagonist. Round. Flat. Stock. Dynamic. Static.

Question 4

What are the types of point of view

Answer 4

First person. Second person. Third person.

Question 5

What are the types of themes

Answer 5

Symbol. Motif.

Question 6

What is the exposition

Answer 6

Background or introductory material

Question 7

What is conflict

Answer 7

What sets the events of the story in motion

Question 8

What is rising action

Answer 8

The way events unfold after conflict

Question 9

What is the climax

Answer 9

Height of action

Question 10

What is the denouement

Answer 10

Conclusion of events

Question 11

What is locale

Answer 11

Specific place in a story

Question 12

What is milieu

Answer 12

General time and place of a story

Question 13

What is atmosphere

Answer 13

Mood of story

Question 14

What is protagonist

Answer 14

The character whose event we experience

Question 15

Who is the antagonist

Answer 15

Something that works against the protagonist

Question 16

What is a round character

Answer 16

Someone who deals like a real character.

Question 17

What is a flat character

Answer 17

Someone who is defined by a couple traits

Question 18

What is a stock character

Answer 18

Someone who represents a stereotypical role

Question 19

What is a dynamic character

Answer 19

A character who changes and evolves over the course of the story

Question 20

What is static character

Answer 20

Someone who is constant

Question 21

What is a reliable narrator

Answer 21

The narrator recounts events reliably

Question 22

What is an unreliable narrator

Answer 22

Someone who tells events in a subjective manner

Question 23

What is an omniscient narrator

Answer 23

Someone who is all knowing and can read the thoughts of characters.

Question 24

What is a symbol

Answer 24

Something tangible to represent an abstract idea

Question 25

What is a motif

Answer 25

Some element that recurs throughout the text

Question 26

What is an allegory

Answer 26

Allegory is where symbolic fictional figures express certain truths or generalizations

Question 27

What is the great chain of being

Answer 27

The great chain of being was a belief system that believed everything in the world was placed on a hierarchy. God above everything else, and the monarch above the layfolk

Question 28

What theatre did Shakespeare primarily use

Answer 28

The globe theatre

Question 29

Definition of dystopia

Answer 29

A hellish society where life is filled with injustice. Typically post-apocalyptic or totalitarian. The opposite is an utopia

Question 30

Definition of utopia

Answer 30

A place where everything is perfect.

Question 31

Where did the word “dystopia” come from

Answer 31

Greek meaning “bad place”

Question 32

Where did the word “utopia” come from

Answer 32

The Greek word for “no place” in reference to how a utopian society is impossible

Question 33

Who was the monarch of England in Shakespeare time?

Answer 33

Queen Elizabeth 1

Question 34

What is juxtaposition

Answer 34

Two things opposite (or contrasting) to each other placed together

Question 35

What is imagery

Answer 35

Visual or descriptive language.

Question 36

What is foreshadowing

Answer 36

Being warned of a future event. Typically through a throwaway line in literature.