Final Semester 1

Question 0

Climax

Answer 0

The turning point or high point of interest or suspense

Question 1

Atmosphere

Answer 1

The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage

Question 2

Direct characterization

Answer 2

The author states or describes a characters traits

Question 3

Dynamic character

Answer 3

A character that is changed by events or interactions with other characters

Question 4

Exposition

Answer 4

Introduces the story’s characters, setting, and situation

Question 5

External conflict

Answer 5

Man versus man

Question 6

Falling action

Answer 6

All events after the climax

Question 7

Flat character

Answer 7

A character with only one or two traits

Question 8

Indirect characterization

Answer 8

Character reveals personality through words and actions

Question 9

Irony

Answer 9

Literary techniques that involve surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions

Question 10

Internal conflict

Answer 10

Man versus self

Question 11

Narrative hook

Answer 11

Conflict introduced, inciting incident

Question 12

Plot

Answer 12

The sequence of events in a story

Question 13

Point of view

Answer 13

Perspective from which a story is told

Question 14

Resolution

Answer 14

End of central conflict

Question 15

Rising action

Answer 15

All events that precede the climax

Question 16

Round character

Answer 16

A complicated character with two or more traits

Question 17

Setting

Answer 17

The time and place of the story

Question 18

The short story

Answer 18

A brief work of fiction where a main character faces a conflict that is resolved in the plot

Question 19

Static character

Answer 19

A character remains the same in a story

Question 20

Symbol

Answer 20

Anything that stands for or represents something else

Question 21

Theme

Answer 21

Central idea, concern, or purpose in a literary work

Question 22

Tone

Answer 22

The authors attitude toward the subject and the reader

Question 23

Verisimilitude

Answer 23

The sense that what one reads is “real” or at least realistic and believable