Unit Test Vocab

Question 1

Rising action

Answer 1

A series of event’s leading to the climax

Question 2

Setting

Answer 2

The place or type of surrounding where an event takes place

Question 3

Antagonist

Answer 3

The bad guy

Question 4

Irony

Answer 4

The expression of ones meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite

typically for humorous or empathetic effect

Question 5

Theme

Answer 5

The subject of a talk
A piece of writing
A persons thoughts
Or exhibition; a topic

Question 6

Tone

Answer 6

How the author feels about the subject

Question 7

Realism

Answer 7

Used to represent subject matter truthfully

Question 8

Resolution

Answer 8

A firm decision to do or not to do something

Ending

Decision

Question 9

Protagonist

Answer 9

The main character

Question 10

Characterization

Answer 10

The creation of a fictional character

Question 11

Climax

Answer 11

The highest or most intense part of a story

Question 12

Conflict

Answer 12

A serous disagreement

Question 13

Empathy

Answer 13

The ability to understand and share the feelings of one another

Question 14

Exposition

Answer 14

A description and explanation of an idea or theory

Question 15

Foreshadowing

Answer 15

A warning or indication for future event

Question 16

Falling action

Answer 16

Occurs right after the climax when the main problem is solved

Raps up the narrative resolves loose ends and leads toward the closure

Question 17

Mood

Answer 17

The over feeling of the story

Question 18

Narrator

Answer 18

The storyteller

Question 19

Plot

Answer 19

Sequence of events where each affects the next one though the principle of cause and effect

Question 20

Flashback

Answer 20

Interjected scene that replays a past incident

Question 21

Point of view

First person

Answer 21

When the storyteller recounts events from their own point of view

“I”
“we”

Question 22

Third person objective

Answer 22

The narrator presents the story with an observational tone

Question 23

Third person omniscient

Answer 23

Point of view that is the most open and flexible

All seeing and all knowing

Question 24

Suspense

Answer 24

Uncertainty about what may happen

Question 25

Rising action

Answer 25

A series of incidents that create suspense interest and tension in a narrative

Question 26

Science fiction

Answer 26

Fiction based on imaged future scientific or technological advances in major social or environmental changes frequently pro training space or time travel and life on other planets

Question 27

Autobiography

Answer 27

An account of a persons life written by that person

Question 28

Biography

Answer 28

An account of someone’s life written by someone else

Question 29

Symbol

Answer 29

A mark or sign or a word that indicates signifies or is understood as representing an idea object or elation ship symbols allow people to go beyond what is known or seen by creating linkages between otherwise very different concepts and experiences

Question 30

Allusion

Answer 30

An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it and indirect or passing reference

Question 31

Genre

Answer 31

A category of artistic compulsion as a music or literature characterized by similarities in form style or subject matter

Question 32

Fable

Answer 32

A short story typically with animals as characters conveying a moral

Question 33

Myth

Answer 33

A traditional story especially one concerning the early history of people are explaining some natural or social phenomenon and typically involving supernatural beings or events

Question 34

Figurative language

Answer 34

Uses figures of speech which are expressions like metaphors similes idioms and personifications

Question 35

Mystery

Answer 35

Something that is difficult or impossible to understand

Question 36

Simile

Answer 36

A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind used to make a description more empathetic or vivid using words “like” “as” or “than”

Question 37

Metaphor

Answer 37

Figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action which is not literally acceptable Not using like or as

Question 38

Personification

Answer 38

Occurs when a thing or abstraction is represented as a person in literature art or as an anthropomorphic metaphor