FICTION Literary Terms

Question 1

What are the 5 parts of a fiction plot called?

Answer 1

1. Exposition (introduction)
2. Rising Action
3. Climax
4. Falling Action 5. Resolution (ending/solution)

Question 2

Who is the main character/good guy,hero heroine in a work of fiction?

Answer 2

protagonist

Question 3

What is it called when the story is at it’s highest point of tension, action or when the conflict/ problem is at it’s worst? Why is it called the turning pount of the story?

Answer 3

climax

Question 4

Who is the bad guy that is against the protagonist or the characer or forcethat work against the_______?

Answer 4

antagonist

Question 5

What is it when squence of events that happen within a story?

Answer 5

plot

Question 6

What is it when a series of events and conflicts involving the story’s characters that lead to the climax?

Answer 6

rising action

Question 7

What is it when events follow after the climax and leads to the resoulution?

Answer 7

falling action

Question 8

What is the conclusion or the ending of the story?

Answer 8

resoulution

Question 9

What word defines time and place in which the story takes place?

Answer 9

setting

Question 10

When it says atmosphere or feelingof a literary work what word are they trying to define?

Answer 10

mood

Question 11

Who’s thoughts and actions make up a story?

Answer 11

characters

Question 12

Which characters are fully developed with both positive qualities and flaws?

Answer 12

round characters

Question 13

What type of characters undergo change over the course of a story as a result of their experience?

Answer 13

dynamic characters

Question 14

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

Answer 14

static characters

Question 15

Which kind of characters that are stereotypical and one-dimensional are?

Answer 15

flat characters

Question 16

What methods are used by an author to develop a character?

Answer 16

characterization

Question 17

What obstacle, struggle or controversy that the protaganist must resolve to overcome?

Answer 17

conflict

Question 18

What kind of conflict in which the protaganist has a problem with another character?

Answer 18

character vs. character

Question 19

Which type of conflict in which the protaganist must struggle against a harsh enviroment or natural disaster?

Answer 19

character vs. nature

Question 20

What kind of conflict which the protaganist faces a problem with a part or the whole of society?

Answer 20

character vs. society

Question 21

Which type of conflict in which the protaganist is at odds with an internal, such as fear, shyness or guilt?

Answer 21

character vs. self

Question 22

What kind of conflict in which the protaganist struggles with a force that seems beyond the characters control?

Answer 22

character vs. fate

Question 23

Which characters are introduced and background information is provided to better understand the events of the story is?

Answer 23

exposition

Question 24

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

Answer 24

foreshadowing

Question 25

What is an unexpected twist in the resolution of a story. The story concludes in a way opposite from what the reader may expect is?

Answer 25

.The use of clues early in a story to give hints about events that will happen later.

Question 26

What aret he idea or ideas that weave the characters, setting and events together. It is a life message for the reader also known as?

Answer 26

theme