English Quiz Flashcards
(40 cards)
Fiction
Anything made up or imagined
Novel
Long work of fiction
Short story
Brief work of fiction
Characters
People who take part in the action of the story
Main characters
Most important characters
Minor characters
Less important characters
Theme
Pain idea
Setting
Event of a story in a particular time and place
Plot
Chain of related events that make up a story
Conflict
The major problem of the plot
Exposition
Background information provided at the beginning of a story
Rising action
Continual complexity and intensity of plot and characters
Climax
Peak of intensity in the story
Falling action
Subsiding of intensity in the story
Resolution
Final part of a story
Contrast
Finding difference between two things
Nonfiction
Writing that deals with real fiction, people, places, facts, and events
Audience
The person/s for whom he or she is watching
Point of view
The way a writer tells a story
Cause
The reason why another event happens
Cause
The reason why another event happened.
Characterization
The way a writer creates a story
Alliteration
Repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of words
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds with in words
