Elements of Fiction

Question 1

Exposition

Answer 1

Introduces characters, setting, and conflicts

Question 2

Rising Action

Answer 2

Provides complications, twists, or intensifications of the conflicts.

Question 3

Climax

Answer 3

The emotional high point of the story; the turning point.

Question 4

Falling Action

Answer 4

All the events that come after the climax

Question 5

Resolution

Answer 5

The final outcome of the major conflict

Question 6

Characters

Answer 6

The people (or animals, things, etc. presented as people) appearing in a literary work

Question 7

Protagonists

Answer 7

The main character of a literaryeork, around whom the main conflict revolves

Question 8

Antagonist

Answer 8

A person or force that opposes the protagonist of a literary work

Question 9

Dynamic Character

Answer 9

Characters that experience some change in personality,attitude,etc… Durong the course of the story

Question 10

Static Character

Answer 10

Characters that remanin the same from beginning to end.

Question 11

Round Character

Answer 11

Characters that are complex and have many sides. They often have unpredictable behavior because their personalities are fully developed

Question 12

Flat Characters

Answer 12

Characters that reveal only one personality trait. They are often stereotypes and can be summed up in a few words (ex.”bad guy” “good guy” “the lone ranger”)

Question 13

Setting

Answer 13

The time and place in which a literary work occurs

Question 14

Conflict

Answer 14

The struggle between opposing forces in a literary work.

Question 15

Internal Conlfict

Answer 15

Conflict that takes place within the mind of a character.

Question 16

External Conflict

Answer 16

Conflict between a cahracter and an outside force.
A) Person vs. Person
B) Person vs. Nature
C) Person vs Society
D) Person vs. Fate
E) Person vs. Technology
F) Person vs. Supernatural

Question 17

Theme

Answer 17

The universal idea or message of a literary work.

E.g “the moral of the story”

Question 18

Point of View

Answer 18

The narrator’s view if the events of a literary work
A) First Person- The narrator is a character in the story, refereed to as “I”
B) Third Person(he/she/etc.)
1) Third Person limited- the narrator reveals the thoughts, feelings, and onservations of only one character
2) Third Person Omniscient- the “all-knowing” narrator can describe the thoughts, feelings, and observations of any character, and can reveal information unknown to the characters
C) Second Person- Rarely used, the narrator will narrate directly to the reader (“you”) as if he/she were a character in the story

Question 19

Irony

Answer 19

A contrast between appearance and reality when reality is the opposite if what it seems or is expected.

Question 20

Allegory

Answer 20

A work with two levels of meaning; a literal one and a symbolic one. Characters, objects, settings, and events represent or stand for something greater: ex. Animal Farm

Question 21

Symbol

Answer 21

A person, place, or object that stands for something beyond itself

Question 22

Mood

Answer 22

The feeling or atmosphere that yhe writer creates for the reader.

Question 23

Metaphor

Answer 23

A comparison of two unlike things, but have something in common

Question 24

Plot

Answer 24

Plot is he sequence of events in a story

Question 25

Simile

Answer 25

A comparison of two unlike things using ‘like’ or ‘as’

Question 26

Imagery

Answer 26

Images (word pictures) that appeals to the five senses

Question 27

Foreshadowing

Answer 27

Hints ir clues fromthe auther about what may occur next.

Question 28

Personification

Answer 28

Human qualities given to an object