Elements Of Fiction-Literary Terms To Know

Question 1

Plot

Answer 1

The sequence of events in a work.

Question 2

Exposition

Answer 2

writing or speech that explains a process presents information

Question 3

Rising action

Answer 3

All the events leading up to the climax

Question 4

Climax

Answer 4

the high point of interest or sunspense

Question 5

Falling action

Answer 5

follows the climax which leads to the denouement or resolution

Question 6

Resolution

Answer 6

general insight or change is conveyed

Question 7

Conflict

Answer 7

A struggle between opposing forces.

Question 8

Internal conflict

Answer 8

A character in conflict with himself or herself

Question 9

External conflict

Answer 9

the main character struggles against an outside force.

Question 10

Characters

Answer 10

Person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work.

Question 11

Protagonist

Answer 11

The main character in a literary work.

Question 12

Antagonist

Answer 12

A character or force in conflict with a main character

Question 13

Setting

Answer 13

The time and place of the action in a literary work.

Question 14

Point of View

Answer 14

Directs the type and amount of information the writer reveals.

The perspective from which a story is narrated, or told.

Question 15

Narrator

Answer 15

A speaker or character who tells a story.

Question 16

Third person

Answer 16

When a voice outside the story narrates.

Question 17

Third Person Omniscient

Answer 17

All-knowing; can tell readers what any character thinks and feels.

Question 18

Theme

Answer 18

Is a central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work.

Question 19

Symbol

Answer 19

Is anything that stands for something else.

Question 20

First person

Answer 20

When a character in the story tells the story.