Vocabulary Week Seven Sentences

A ____________ in a book or film is when the current plot is interrupted so that a scene which previously occurred can be shared with the reader.

• flashback

• frame story

• paradox

• resolution

An example of _______________ is a character saying, "Somewhere out there, there's someone for me," before a meet cute between that character and another.

• flashback

• foreshadowing

• parallel plot

• tension

The movie The Princess Bride is an example of a _______________.

• flashback

• frame story

• paradox

• resolution

Sometimes, a story needs a bit of ______________ only available in backstory in order to understand what is going on during the story.

• foreshadowing

• exposition

• paradox

• tension

In a bitter twist of ________, a fire station in North Carolina burned down.

• foreshadowing

• exposition

• irony

• pacing

The _________ of a story is how fast or slow the events of the story are going, basically.

• irony

• exposition

• pacing

• tension

The liar's __________ is as follows: Everything I say is a lie.

• flashback

• frame story

• irony

• paradox

The __________________ of Finding Nemo are Marlin looking for Nemo and Nemo trying to escape the dentist's office to find Marlin.

• frame stories

• paradoxes

• parallel plots

• resolutions

Some stories lack a strong __________ when they do not end on a note of closure. Cliffhangers are like that. If a story finishes with loose ends and questions unanswered, it basically has no definite ending. Drives me crazy.

• foreshadowing

• exposition

• resolution

• tension

Most people think of ___________ as a strain carried in their neck or shoulders, but I think of it as a strain on my brain.

• exposition

• irony

• resolution

• tension