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Fiction Vocabulary Quiz

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A story that is not true and is made up by the author.

a)

Poetry

b)

Nonfiction

c)

Prose

d)

Fiction

2.

The events that make up a story.

a)

Climax

b)

Plot

c)

Exposition

d)

Resolution

3.

The background information given to understand the story better, characters are introduced, setting is established.

a)

Exposition

b)

Rising Action

c)

Falling Action

d)

Climax

4.

The main character(s) in a story.

a)

Antagonist

b)

Protagonist

c)

Setting

d)

Foreshadowing

5.

The character who stands in the way of the main character achieving his/her goal in a story.

a)

Narrator

b)

Protagonist

c)

Hero

d)

Antagonist

6.

The time, place, and environment of a story.

a)

Resolution

b)

Exposition

c)

Characters

d)

Setting

7.

The events leading up to the climax - a series of events that builds from the conflict.

a)

Falling Action

b)

Conflict

c)

Rising Action

d)

Climax

8.

The turning point of the story where the main character(s) usually change in some way.

a)

Climax

b)

Fiction

c)

Flashback

d)

Conflict

9.

Events that follow the climax and the conflicts untangling, and leads to the conflict being resolved.

a)

Rising Action

b)

Exposition

c)

Foreshadowing

d)

Falling Action

10.

The solution to the story's conflict.

a)

Theme

b)

Resolution

c)

Mood

d)

Tone

11.

The problem in the story.

a)

Climax

b)

Fiction

c)

Resolution

d)

Conflict

12.

The moral of the story or the lesson learned.

a)

Theme

b)

Conflict

c)

Climax

d)

Mood

13.

The way an author creates a memorable character.

a)

Antagonist

b)

Protagonist

c)

Narrator

d)

Characterization

14.

A conversation between characters in a story.

a)

Flashback

b)

Tone

c)

Dialogue

d)

Mood

15.

The person or character who tells the story.

a)

Characterization

b)

Narrator

c)

Antagonist

d)

Protagonist

16.

When the author creates a feeling of anxious uncertainty about the outcome of events in a story; keeps the reader interested.

a)

Theme

b)

Flashback

c)

Tone

d)

Suspense

17.

Something that stands for something else.

a)

Suspense

b)

Exposition

c)

Symbolism

d)

Theme

18.

Clues in a story that suggest later events.

a)

Flashback

b)

Foreshadowing

c)

Tone

d)

Mood

19.

Events that take the story back in time from the current point in the story.

a)

Foreshadowing

b)

Tone

c)

Flashback

d)

Plot

20.

The feeling created in the reader by reading a story.

a)

Tone

b)

Climax

c)

Antagonist

d)

Mood

21.

The writer's attitude toward the reader or subject.

a)

Mood

b)

Tone

c)

Narrator

d)

Falling Action

22.

The perspective from which story is told.

a)

Theme

b)

Characterization

c)

Author's Purpose

d)

Point of View