Narrative & Fiction Vocabulary Review

Match the following

• mood

• a main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly

• theme

• the narrator's position in relation to the story being told

• point-of-view

• author’s attitude toward the subject/topic evoked through diction

• tone

• an author’s purposeful reference to something else in a literary work

• allusion

• feeling(s) evoked in the reader as a reaction to the narrative’s atmosphere

Match the following

• inciting incident

• moments identified by the author that relate to previous events

• protagonist

• the event that sets the central conflict in motion

• antagonist

• the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text

• flashback

• a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary

• foreshadowing

• clues by the author that allude to later events

Match the following

• conflict

• a literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces usually a protagonist and an antagonist

• flat character

• a character that changes throughout the course of the narrative

• static character

• a character that does not change throughout the course of the narrative

• dynamic character

• a realistic character that displays multiple character traits that is complex

• round character

• characters that are two-dimensional and are relatively uncomplicated

Match the following

• exposition

• the point in a narrative at which the conflict or tension hits the highest point

• rising action

• the point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out

• resolution

• a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest

• falling action

• a literary device used to introduce background information about events, settings, characters etc. to the audience or readers

• climax

• the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved

Match the following

• connotation

• literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people

• narrative

• additional meaning associated with the word (emotions, ideas, and other words)

• denotation

• direct and specific meaning

• fiction

• the events that make up a storyline

• plot

• a spoken or written account of connected events; a story