Fiction Vocabulary Words

Question 1

Symbol

Answer 1

An object, an event, a place, or a person that suggests more than its literal meaning.

Question 2

What is an example of a symbol?

Answer 2

When you give your boo a present on Valentine’s Day, the present symbolizes that you care for that person.

Question 3

What are ways to spot a symbol?

Answer 3

Prominence

Significance

Question 4

Prominence

Answer 4

repeated mention, especially detailed description, strategic placement

Question 5

Significance

Answer 5

weighted by how it is different or how it stands out from what’s around it

Question 6

Allegory

Answer 6

A narrative in which many elements of the story are equated with outside elements

Question 7

What is an example of an allegory?

Answer 7

Most elements are symbols and how those symbols interact with each other is supposed to make a grander statement about the meaning of the work than the literal work itself.

Question 8

Theme

Answer 8

“What it all adds up to?” Upon taking all the stories aspects into account, what does it all mean.

Question 9

What does a theme do?

Answer 9

Points out a subject and makes a direct claim about that subject.

Question 10

What terms are related to Theme and Symbols?

Answer 10

Allegory
Significance
Prominence

Question 11

Tone

Answer 11

Gets in, around, and behind the words to indicate the attitude the work takes toward the characters, setting, subject, or issues, or the attitude a character reveals toward an issue, situation, setting, or another character.

Question 12

How do authors show tone in a story?

Answer 12

Authors rely on word choice, ways of phrasing, and kind of comparisons to convey an attitude/tone (serious, somber, solemn, playful, excited, impassioned, dejected, angry, etc.).

Question 13

How many tones can a story have?

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A work can have a single tone, but more often, it is mixed between two or more tones that are juxtaposed or mingled or played off each other.

Question 14

Style

Answer 14

The way the author handles words and sentences to present its subject.

Question 15

When is style particularly important?

Answer 15

More complex tone of irony

Question 16

Irony

Answer 16

Expression in which the writer or speaker creates a discrepancy or incongruity between what seems to be (appearance) and what is (reality).

Question 17

What usually helps to signal to the reader when something is ironic?

Answer 17

Stylistic Choices

Question 18

Sarcasm

Answer 18

A type of irony that is especially harsh, bitter, or hurtful.

Question 19

What term is related to Tone, Style, and Irony?

Answer 19

Sarcasm

Question 20

Setting

Answer 20

A story, poem, or play’s overall context – where, when, and in what circumstances the action occurs.

Question 21

What are the three different types of settings?

Answer 21

Setting as Place
Setting as Time
Setting as Cultural Context

Question 22

What is involved in Setting as Place?

Answer 22

The actual Physical Environment and

The Significance of the Place

Question 23

The Actual Physical Environment

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The city, town, downtown, village, suburb, apartment, brick house, factory, farm, junction, interstate, prison, hill, lake, ocean, valley

Question 24

The Significance of the Place

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What the setting conveys and suggests

Question 25

What is involved in Setting as Time?

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The Historical Time and The Social Milieu

Question 26

The Historical Time

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How the time influences the story; what was happening in history then and how did it influence the story

Question 27

The Social Milieu

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What's the social environment of the setting and how does it influence the story

Question 28

What is involved in Setting as Cultural Context?

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Social Circumstances and Cultural Transplantation

Question 29

Social Circumstances

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How were people feeling about what was going on around them; this can tie into the historical context discussed above

Question 30

Cultural Transplantation

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When a character is put into a setting that does not correlate with his/her cultural expectations

Question 31

Atmosphere

Answer 31

The mood or emotional quality that surrounds a literary work

Question 32

What terms are related to Setting?

Answer 32

Setting as Place Setting as Time Setting as Cultural Context Atmosphere

Question 33

What terms are related to Character?

Answer 33

``` Characterization Telling Showing Dialogue Entering a Character's Mind Round Characters Flat Characters Major Characters Minor Characters Stock Characters Protagonist Antagonist Motivation Consistent ```

Question 34

Characters

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The created persons who appear or are referred to in narratives and dramas (and sometimes poems)

Question 35

Characterization

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The methods and techniques an author uses to represent people and to enable us to know and relate to them.

Question 36

What are the techniques of characterization?

Answer 36

Telling Showing Dialogue Entering a Character's Mind

Question 37

Telling

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Most direct method as we are simply told what the characters are like, all at once or bit by bit.

Question 38

Showing

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Depends upon the character's actions, which may be presented without interpretive comment, leaving the reader to draw her own conclusions.

Question 39

Dialogue

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What the character reveals about herself or her thoughts on others by what she says (or by what other characters say about her).

Question 40

Entering a Character's Mind

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Usually done through third-person omniscient or third-person limited, reveals his thoughts and feelings.

Question 41

What are the Categories of Characterization?

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``` Round Characters Flat Characters Major Characters Minor Characters Stock Characters Protagonist Antagonist ```

Question 42

Round Characters

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More complex and sometimes challenging to understand. They often change or grow as the story unfolds. Sometimes, they remain static, thought they may be described so richly that we have a sense of how they could change, even though we don't see it happening.

Question 43

Flat Characters

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Less complex and do not demonstrate change in the story. They typically have one or two traits that define them.

Question 44

Major Characters

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Typically the round characters.

Question 45

Minor Characters

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Typically the flat characters, sometimes referred to as stock characters

Question 46

Stock Characters

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Stereotypes easily recognized by readers

Question 47

Protagonist

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The central character in a story.

Question 48

Antagonist

Answer 48

The character or force that opposes the protagonist to give rise to the central conflict in the work.

Question 49

What are Qualities of Characterization?

Answer 49

Character's Motivation and Consistency

Question 50

Character's Motivation

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The reasons, explanations, and/or justifications behind a character's behaviour. This grows out of what the character wants or desires and how that causes the character to react in a specific situation.

Question 51

Consistent

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What a characters behavior must be. Should his behaviour change, clear reasons for the change should be evident. This consistency makes characters believable.

Question 52

What terms are related to Plot?

Answer 52

``` Story Chronological Order in media res Flashback Exposition Conflict Physical Conflict Social Conflict Internal or Psychological Conflict Suspense Foreshadowing Repetition Rising Action Climax Epiphany Gaps ```

Question 53

Plot

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The action in a story and the way events are selected and arranged for the reader.

Question 54

Story

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A straightforward account of everything that happens in the order it happens. Story provides the material (the events, the characters, the outcome) from which plot is constructed.

Question 55

Chronological Order

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When the plot unfolds in the order in which the events occurred.

Question 56

in media res

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Another place where a plot can start. In Latin, this means "into the middle of things." When the plot begins in media res this means that the plot starts in the middle of the story. Doing this tends to plunge readers directly into the action and tension of a story.

Question 57

Flashback

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When earlier events are inserted as a narrative or scene, perhaps through a character remembering

Question 58

Exposition

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A nondramatized explanation, perhaps through a speech by the narrator or a character

Question 59

Conflict

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A struggle or confrontation between opposing characters or a character and opposing forces.

Question 60

What are the three types of conflict?

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Physical Conflict Social Conflict Internal or Psychological Conflict

Question 61

Physical Conflict

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May occur between characters and between characters and nature or some other type of setting.

Question 62

Social Conflict

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May involve differences in personal or societal relationships or values

Question 63

Internal or Psychological Conflict

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Deals with struggle within a character as s/he wrestles with competing moral claims or a difficult decision. This can be seen in an identity crisis, a belief crisis, a value crisis, or a loss through death.

Question 64

Suspense

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Some uncertainty and concern about how things will turn out.

Question 65

Foreshadowing

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A way to help readers anticipate what might happen later.

Question 66

Repetition

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Used to draw attention to especially important aspects of a story.

Question 67

Rising Action

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Development of a plot used to holds readers' attention by becoming more complex and more intense

Question 68

Climax

Answer 68

Crisis of some sort

Question 69

Epiphany

Answer 69

A type of climax when a character experiences a sudden moment of illumination or revelation

Question 70

Gaps

Answer 70

Omissions that withhold whatever is not significant to the action of a story.