Academic Language Fiction

Question 1

What is a plot?

Answer 1

Series of related events that make up a story

Question 2

What is a subplot

Answer 2

A minor plat the relates in some way to the story

Question 3

The event in the story that causes conflict

Answer 3

Inciting incident

Question 4

What is a Conflict/problem/issue

Answer 4

A struggle between two opposing forces(external and internal)

Question 5

External conflict:

Answer 5

Occurs between a character and another character, society, or a force of nature

Question 6

Occurs within one character (such as emotional turmoil or doubts)

Answer 6

Internal conflict:

Question 7

Resolution/outcome

Answer 7

Conflict is resolved and the story is broughts to a close

Question 8

Point in the story that creates the greatest suspense or intrest

Answer 8

Climax

Question 9

Theme/central idea

Answer 9

An insight or idea about life

Question 10

Main character in a piece of literature

Answer 10

Proagontist

Question 11

Antagonist-

Answer 11

another character opposing the protagonist

Question 12

Overall feeling of a work of literature

Answer 12

Mood

Question 13

The attude a writter takes toward his or hers subject or characters

Answer 13

Tone

Question 14

Forshadowing

Answer 14

use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the story

Question 15

Symbolism

Answer 15

Person,place,thing, or event that has meaning in itself

Question 16

POV: first person

Answer 16

is from the perspective of a character told using pronouns like “I,” “me,” “my,” “we,” “us,” or “our.”

Question 17

the narrator uses “you” to describe the reader’s thoughts, actions, and background or may speak directly to the audience using “you,” “you’re,” and “your.”

Answer 17

POV: Second person

Question 18

is narrated by an external narrator. (He, she, Him, her, they)

Answer 18

POV: third person

Question 19

Third person onmiscient:

Answer 19

The narrator is all-knowing and has access to the thoughts, feelings, and actions of all the characters.

Question 20

The narrator only has access to the thoughts and emotions of one character, usually following that character through the story and describing events that they experience.

Answer 20

Third person limited:

Question 21

Characterization

Answer 21

the way a writer reveals the personality of a character

Question 22

S

Answer 22

What he/she Says (Allowing us to hear the character speak)

Question 23

What he/she Thinks (Reveal the character’s thoughts and feelings

Answer 23

T

Question 24

E

Answer 24

What Everyone says about him/her (Showing how others react to the character)

Question 25

A

Answer 25

What his/her Actions are (Showing the character in action/what they do)

Question 26

What he/she Looks like (Describing the appearance of the character)

Answer 26

L

Question 27

Figurative language

Answer 27

figures of speech not literally true

Question 28

language that appeals to the five senses

Answer 28

Imagery

Question 29

Alliteration

Answer 29

The repetition

Question 30

Metaphors

Answer 30

Comparison between two unlike things

Question 31

Comparison between two unlike things using like or as

Answer 31

Similes

Question 32

Idioms

Answer 32

a phrase that means something different that what is actually said

Question 33

a word associated with a sound EX: slam, sizzle

Answer 33

Onomatopoeia

Question 34

Personification

Answer 34

The act of giving human characteristics to something not human

Question 35

Irony

Answer 35

Difference between what is meant and what is said

Question 36

The difference between what is said and what is written

Answer 36

Verbal irony

Question 37

Situational irony

Answer 37

occurs when what happens is very different from what we expected would happen

Question 38

occurs when the audience or the reader knows something the character does not

Answer 38

Dramatic irony

Question 39

Rising action

Answer 39

The events that lead up to the most intese moment in the story

Question 40

Beginning of the story when the setting and main characters are introduced

Answer 40

Exposition

Question 41

Falling action

Answer 41

The events that help resolve the conflict