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WGU Lit. Fiction
WGU Literature Fiction terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A narrative in which abstract concepts are represented as something concrete, typically major elements in the story, such as characters, objects, actions, or events. | Allegory |
| . It possesses two parallel levels of meaning and understanding: a literal level, where a surface level story is recounted, and a symbolic level, which addresses abstract ideas. | Allegory |
| These are often considered extended metaphors: the surface level story helps to convey moral, religious, political, or philosophical ideas. | Allegories |
| What are two major kinds of allegory? | historical and political allegories and allegories of ideas |
| An indirect reference in a literary text to a well-known person or place, or to an historical, political, or cultural event. The reference can also be to a literary, religious, or mythological text. | Allusion |
| These are not usually identified, as it is assumed the reader will make the connection. | Allusions |
| A figure of speech wherein a thing, place, abstract idea, dead or absent person is addressed directly as if present and capable of understanding and responding. | Apostrophe |
| The associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning. ex. "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" | Connotation |
| The dictionary meaning of a word. | Denotation |
| The author's choice of words or vocabulary in a literary work | Diction |
| A performer's manner or style of speaking, including phrasing and punctuation. | Diction |
| An author or literary movement's distinctive or characteristic use of diction, imagery, syntax, language, or literary devices. | Style |
| This is the way an author uses the sum total of all literary elements in a work. | Style |
| The author's attitude in a literary text toward the audience or reader (i.e., familiar, formal) or toward the subject itself (i.e., satiric, celebratory, ironic). | Tone |
| It is a moment of insight, discovery, revelation, or understanding that alters a character's life in a meaningful way. | Epiphany |
| Originally, this had only spiritual implications but now it is frequently used in secular situations. | Epiphany |
| A scene used to show events that occur before the opening scene. | Flashback |
| These are used to provide insight into or background about events, settings, characters, or context and can take the form of a character's dreams, remembrances, or reflections or a narrator's comments. | Flashbacks |
| This is used to classify literature according to form, style, or content. | Genre |
| A figure of speech which uses exaggeration for comic, ironic, or serious effect. | Hyperbole |
| Its opposite is understatement or meiosis (minimize its importance). | Hyperbole |
| Collective form of image | Imagery |
| Depictions of objects or qualities perceived by the five senses. | Imagery |
| The figurative language used to convey abstract ideas concretely | Imagery |
| The depiction of visual objects or scenes. | Imagery |
| This is what makes language and literature concrete and not abstract. | Imagery |
| This refers to a literary and artistic technique where the narrative starts in the middle of the story instead of from its beginning (Latin for "into the midst of affairs (lit. into mid-affairs") | In media res |
| A manner of speaking that implies a discrepancy between what is said and what is meant or between what happens and what is expected to happen in life and in literature. | Irony |
| When characters say the opposite of what they mean. | Verbal irony |
| When the opposite of what is expected occurs. | Irony of circumstance or situation |
| When a character speaks in ignorance of a situation or event known to the audience or to the other characters. | Dramatic irony |
| A figure of speech that replaces the name of one thing with the name of another closely related thing. For example, "the crown" is used to signify the monarchy. | Metonymy |
| The telling of true or fictitious events by a narrator. These can be either verse or prose and focus on the depiction of events or happenings. | Narrative |
| The voice or character who tells a story and offers information, interpretation, or insight to readers about events, context, or character. | Narrator |
| These are personas who use "I" or "me" to tell a story. | First-person narrators |
| These use "you" to tell a story; these are rarely used. | Second-person narrators |
| These use "he" or "she." | Third-person narrators |
| This can move freely between any number of characters. | An omniscient narrator |
| This has access to one or more (but not all) character's thoughts and some of the story's events and contexts. | A limited-omniscient narrator |
| This is one who offers comment, critique, interpretation, or additional information to readers about characters or events as he or she recounts events. | An intrusive narrator |
| This relates events with a minimum of commentary, observation, or interpretation. | An unintrusive narrator |
| These are those whose readers are given reasons to question or doubt the validity of their perspective. Readers can doubt a narrator's reliability or accuracy based on his or her age, intelligence, sanity, or relationship to the events. | Unreliable or fallible narrators |
| is one who draws attention to the fact that he or she is narrating a work of fiction, as is often the case with metafiction. | A self-conscious narrator |
| This refers to the first-person voice or character an author uses to convey the story in a narrative. | Persona |
| Author and persona (should / should not) be considered as synonyms. | Should not |
| The arrangement or design of events, actions, and situations in a narrative work. | Plot |
| This is considered to be the "raw material" of story and should be considered as distinct from story. | Plot |
| This is what happens or what the narrative is about. | Story |
| This is the pattern or sequence of events the author creates in order to achieve a particular narrative, and a thematic, emotional, or artistic effect. | Plot |
| "Its fleece was white as snow" is an example of... | Figurative language |
| This refers to the location, historical moment, social context, or circumstances in which a literary work or scene is set. | Setting |
| How does setting influence character development in fiction? | Affects characters' behavior, inspires realizations in the characters,& creates a place in which characters exist |
| How can symbolism add meaning to fiction? | By implying abstract ideas through concrete acts, by using acts of characters to dictate how readers should react to the story, & By packing emotional connotations into a particular act of a character |
| Which of the following are elements of style? | Details or lack thereof, use of abstract or concrete language, use of figures of speech, & decisions about time and place. |
| - An extended piece of fictional prose that is distinguished from short stories and novellas by its length. | Novel |
| This is a novel of maturation that traces a protagonist from childhood to adulthood and chronicles the development of his or her character, intellect, and often spirituality or morality. | A Bildungsroman |
| This kind of novel specifically traces the artistic development of a writer or other kind of artist | Küntstlerroman |
| This novel chronicles a character's education. | Erziehungsroman |
| These novels illustrate the connections between a character and his or her social, political, historical, or cultural context(s). | Social |
| These novels, made popular in the nineteenth century by Sir Walter Scott, uses historical events, situations, and characters for its premise. | Historical |
| These novels depict characters, settings, and situations in specific detail, making the novel seem extremely realistic and plausible to its readers. | Realistic |
| This novel has described novels that are not entirely realistic and that include fantastic or supernatural events. | Romance |
| This is told through the characters’ writing and exchange of letters. | Epistolary Novel |
| This is prose (prose is writing that resembles everyday speech. Or ordinary writing as distinguished from verse or matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression) writing that is not fictional. | Nonfiction Novel |
| This is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question. | Nonfiction Novel |
| This is a biographical novel that concentrates on an individual’s youth and his social and moral initiation into adulthood. | Apprenticeship Novel |
| This is a realistic and episodic novel that features the adventures of a likeable yet flawed roguish hero. | Picaresque Novel |
| This is a prose (attempts to mirror the language of everyday speech) fiction work of about 50-100 pages. Shorter than a novel and longer than a short story. | Novella |
| This possesses formal and stylistic elements of those two prose genres. Unlike a short story, this is long enough to be published as an individual volume. | Novella |
| This is a long, narrate story of national importance based on the life and actions of a hero. Frequently the fate of the nation depends upon the hero and his actions. | Epic Novel |
| What are three great epics from world literature? | The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid |
| What are two great epics in English? | Beowulf and Paradise Lost |
| A brief story with an explicit moral provided by the author. These typically include animals as characters. | Fable |
| A story intended to teach a moral lesson or answer an ethical question. | Parable |
| A fictional prose narrative shorter and more focused than a novella. This usually deals with a single episode and often a single character. The "tone," the author's attitude toward his or her subject and audience, is uniform throughout. | Short Story |
| A story told by a narrator with a simple plot and little character development. These are usually relatively short and often carry a simple message. | Tale |
| A secondary story in a narrative. This may serve as a motivating or complicating force for the main plot of the work, or it may provide emphasis for, or relief from, the main plot. | Subplot |
| These are examples of what? sunshine suggesting happiness, rain suggesting sorrow, and storm clouds suggesting despair. | Symbols |
| A figure of speech where a part of something is used to represent the whole (for example, "hands" to refer to manual labor) or where the whole is used to represent the part (for example, "Montréal" is used to refer to the Montréal Canadiens). | Synecdoche |
| A significant abstract idea emerging from a literary work or the statement the work appears to make about its subject. Usually theses are indirectly suggested and are generally conveyed through figurative language, imagery, symbols, or motifs. | Theme |
| The author's attitude in a literary text toward the audience or reader (i.e., familiar, formal) or toward the subject itself (i.e., satiric, celebratory, ironic). | Tone |
| This is describing something in terms less grand or important than it deserves or merits, typically to minimize its importance. | Understatement- Greek term “meiosis” |
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