Vocabulary for Fiction and Poetry Quiz 2

when a character suddenly realizes something significant about life

• apostrophe

• epiphany

• epistrophe

• analogy

occurs when an author shows rather than tells us what the character

• indirect characterization

• direct characterization

a technique employed to describe events that have taken place before the story begins

• flashback

• in medias res

• foreshadowing

• point of view

the character causing conflict

• villan

• supervillan

• protagonist

• antagonist

a character who exhibits a range of emotions

• sappy

• round (dynamic)

• square

• flat

a hint at things that might happen later in the story

• imagery

• denouement

• foreshadowing

• conflict

a coming-of-age story

• building characterization

• bildungsroman

• romance

• thematic element

a latin term meaning “in the middle of the action”

• in medias res

• media ras

• ras in media

• medium

the main character

• antagonist

• flat character

• foil

• protagonist

this occurs when a narrator explicitly describes the background, motivation, temperament or appearance of a character

• direct characterizations

• realistic fiction

• indirect characterization

• omniscient point of view