Unit 4 Fiction Vocabulary

Pick the correct term: when an author uses clues to hint at future events that will happen in the story

• verbal irony

• foreshadowing

• third person POV

Pick the correct term: when a person, a place, or an object (the symbol) represents an idea or quality

• first person POV
• foreshadowing
• symbolism

Pick the correct term: when what is said is the opposite of what the speaker actually means

• verbal irony

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

Pick the correct term: when the outcome of an event turns out to be completely unexpected based on what you had reasonably believed would happen

• verbal irony
• dramatic irony
• situational irony

Pick the correct term: when the reader know what is going to happen to a character, but the character doesn't know

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

• verbal irony

Pick the correct term: a person who has become disabled due to their injury or illness (this is an old-fashioned word)

• invalid

• querulous

• neurotic

If a fire truck caught on fire, what type of irony would that be?

• dramatic irony
• verbal irony
• situational irony

If your mom said she's really glad you cleaned your room, when you BOTH know it's a mess, she would be using...

• situational irony
• dramatic irony
• verbal irony

If you were watching a scary movie, and a character was about to unknowingly go into a room where YOU know a monster is hiding, what type of irony would it be? (The character does not know the monster is there, but you do.)

• dramatic irony

• verbal irony

• situational irony

Pick the correct term: a noun that means an irrationally anxious or emotionally unstable person

• imperious
• symbolism
• neurotic