Literary Terms Review Fiction

What is the method a writer uses to reveal the personality of a character in a literary work?

• plot

• exposition

• characterization

• theme

What kind of narrator can only tell for certain what one person is thinking or feeling?

• Third-person

• First-person

• Third-person limited

• Third-person omniscient

What would we call a character who is multi-dimensional like a real human.

• round

• dynamic

• protagonist

• first-person narrator

Who is the hero or central character of a literary work?

• the "good guy"

• antagonist

• villain

• protagonist

What is the second section of the typical plot in which the main character begins to grapple with the story’s main conflict?

• climax

• exposition

• rising action

• denouement

What is internal conflict?

• man versus man

• man versus self

• man versus nature

• man versus society

What type of character undergoes a change from the beginning of the story to the end?

• dynamic

• protagonist

• static

• antagonist

What's the point of view of narrators who are not involved with or as characters in the story?

• Third-person limited

• Third-person omniscient

• Third-person objective

• First person

A character who undergoes no change from the beginning to the end of a story is what type?

• dynamic

• static

• round

• flat

Which literary term describes the feeling that a reader gets from the elements of the story?

• mood

• theme

• tone

• plot