Elements Of Fiction Flashcards
The individuals whose thoughts and actions make up a story?
Characters
The place in which the story takes place?
Setting
The central, focal figure in a work of fiction?
Protagonist
A character or force have that works against the protagonist, creating obstacles.
Antagonist
The arrangement or sequence of events within stories.
Plot
The feeling of a literary?
Mood
Characters that are fully developed with both positive qualities and flaws?
Round character
Characters that under go change during the story?
Dynamic characters
Characters that don’t undergo changes in the story?
Static characters
Characters that are one dimensional?
Flat characters
Methods used by an author to develop a character?
Characterization
An obstacle that the protagonist must overcome?
Conflict
When the protagonist has a problem with another character?
Character vs character
A conflict in which the protagonist has to overcome a problem with his or herself?
Character vs self
A problem In which the protagonist has to struggle against a natural disaster?
Character vs nature
A conflict when the protagonist faces a problem on society?
Character vs society
A problem that the protagonist fears is to far out of reach?
Character vs fate
Characters are introduced background information to better understand he story?
Exposition
A clue that hints on what will happen later into the story?
Foreshadowing
Conflict leading to the climax?
Rising action
The turning point of a story?
Climax
The action that follows the climax?
Falling action
The conclusion of the story?
Resoulution
An unexpected resolution of a story?
Situational irony
The ideas that weave the characters, setting and events?
Theme
A second story within the main plot of the story?
Subplot
What is the repetition of similar sounds at the end of the word.
Rhyme
What are groups of lines that are linked together, often by thoughts?
Stanza
What is the pattern at the end of the poem?
Rhyme scheme
The pattern of unstressed syllables?
Rhythm
A repeated pattern of unstressed syllables.
Meter
A pair of rhyming lines In a poem?
Couplet
A four line poem or stanza?
Quatrain
The use of words to make an effect?
Figurative language
A comparison of two things using like or as?
Simile
A comparison of words without using like or as
Metaphor
A metaphor that developed over several lines?
Extended metaphor
The use of a person or thing to represent something?
Symbolism
The repetition of constant sounds at the beginning of words?
Alliteration
Unrhymed lambic pentameter.
Blank verse
Poetry that does not follow a rhyme or rhythm.
Free verse
Poetry that tells story.
Narrative poetry
A long narrative poem about a hero
Epic
A tragic poem and dramatic conclusion
Ballad
Poetry that focuses on a single reader
Lyric poetry
Extreme exaggeration
Hyperbole
When you give an object or animal a human quality
Personification
The repetition of a constant sound in several words of a line or stanza?
Consonance
The repetition of a vowel sound in several words of a line or stanza?
Assonance
A five line poem that is often humorous.
Limerick
A 14 line rhyming poem.
Sonnet
A meter in which each unstressed syllables followed by a stress syllable.
Lambic pentameter
