Fiction Vocab

Question 0

What is Mood?

Answer 0

The atmosphere or feeling of a literary work. The setting can contribute to establishing the mood of a story

Question 1

What is Setting?

Answer 1

The time and place in which a story takes place

Question 2

What is Characters?

Answer 2

The individuals whose thoughts and actions make up the story. The actions of the chair trod make up the events in the story

Question 3

What is Protagonist?

Answer 3

The central, focal figure in a work or fiction

Question 4

What is Antagonist?

Answer 4

A character or force that works against the protagonist, creating obstacles. A story can have more than one

Question 5

What is a Round characters?

Answer 5

Characters that are fully developed with both positive qualities and flaws.

Question 6

What is Dynamic characters?

Answer 6

Characters that undergo any change over the course of the story as a result of experience.

Question 7

What is Static characters?

Answer 7

Characters that do not undergo any change from the story’s inception to its conclusion.

Question 8

What is Flat characters?

Answer 8

Characters that are stereotype and one - dimensional

Question 9

What is Characterization?

Answer 9

Methods used by an author to develop a character

Question 10

What is Plot?

Answer 10

The arrangement, or sequence,of events within a story

Question 11

What is Conflict?

Answer 11

An obstacle, struggle or controversy that the protagonist must resolve or overcome

Question 12

What is Character vs character?

Answer 12

A conflict in witch the protagonist has a problem with another character

Question 13

What is Character vs nature?

Answer 13

A conflict in which the protagonist must struggle against a harsh environment or natural disaster

Question 14

What is Character vs society?

Answer 14

A conflict in which the protagonist faces a problem with a part or the whole of society

Question 15

What is Character vs self?

Answer 15

A conflict in which the protagonist is at odds with an internal problem, such as fear, shyness, or guilt

Question 16

What is Character vs fate?

Answer 16

A conflict in which the protagonist struggles with a force that seems beyond the characters controls

Question 17

What is the subplot?

Answer 17

A second story within the main plot of a story

Question 18

What is the exposition?

Answer 18

In fiction, the plot normally begins with exposition. Characters are introduced and background information is provided to better understand the events or the story

Question 19

What is foreshadowing?

Answer 19

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

Question 20

What is the rising action?

Answer 20

A serious of events and conflict involving the story’s characters that leads to the climax

Question 21

What is the falling action?

Answer 21

It is he action that follows the climax and leads to the resolution

Question 22

What is the resolution?

Answer 22

The conclusion of the story.

Question 23

What is a situational irony?

Answer 23

An unexpected twist in the resolution of a story

Question 24

What is the theme?

Answer 24

The idea or ideas that weave the characters, setting and events together