Statistics for BC English 12 Provincial Exam Fiction/Nonfiction Terms

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	Answer	% Correct
The person(s) or force(s) opposing the protagonist	Antagonist	100%
An account of one's own life, generally written as a continuous narrative of major life events	Autobiography	100%
A non-serious literary or dramatic work, which commonly is assumed to have a happy ending	Comedy	100%
The final events following the major climax of the plot; French for 'unknotting'	Denouement	100%
A differing form of language spoken in a particular geographical area or by members of a particular group; different from an accent in that it is the actual vocabulary of the speakers that is changed, rather than how the words are spoken	Dialect	100%
When emphasis is achieved through deliberate exaggeration	Hyperbole	100%
A visual picture, described in words	Image	100%
Expression in which the subject of the sentense carries out the action directly	Active Voice	67%
Extended narrative that carries a second meaning in addition to the main meaning/story	Allegory	67%
A quick reference to a well known cultural or literary work	Allusion	67%
A likeness or comparison between two things that have similar features	Analogy	67%
Informal evidence based on eyewitness acounts, instead of scientific proof	Anecdotal Evidence	67%
An effect which works against the climax, often using a quick descent from something lofty or noble to something much more common	Anti-climax	67%
Something that stands in opposition, but not necessarily in conflict, with something else - often meant in terms of character	Antithesis	67%
Words or phrases that were once commonly used, but are not now, due to the evolution of language	Archaic Language	67%
Essay form in which the point of view or assertion is presented in an attempt to prove a position or to convince the reader of something	Argumentative Essay	67%
A short theatrical spoken passage that expresses a speaker's intimate thoughts; usually directed at the audience and assumed to be unheard on the stage	Aside	67%
The mood or emotion conveyed by a setting; can also relate to the ways in which the author uses words to describe a scene	Atmosphere	67%
The 'type' of person a work is written for, or a more general group of people who experience a work together	Audience	67%
A person's need to hold on to a particular viewpoint, despite being aware of other, equally valid, opinions	Bias	67%
An account of a person's life, generally written as a continuous narrative of major life events by someone else	Biography	67%
The portrayal of a character who's features or personality is exagerated for comic effect	Caricature	67%
An intensive analysis of something, usually done in an effort to then use it as a baseline in comparison to something else	Case Study	67%
Term used to describe the resolution of plot effect in Ancient Greek drama and liturature; not necessarily bad	Catastrophe	67%
The idea that an event is the reason behind the occurance of a later related event	Cause and Effect	67%
General name for a narrative agent in a story, but can also refer to a person's overall personality and sense of morality	Character	67%
A character who contrasts with another character (often the protagonist) in order to highlight particular qualities/traits of the main character	Character Foil	67%
The way in which a character's personality or portrayal is shown by the author	Characterization	67%
A single feature who gives the prologue, epilogue, and sometimes introduces the scenes in plays	Chorus	67%
Things listed in order of time	Chronological Order	67%
An expression, idea, or element of an artistic work which has been overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect	Cliche	67%
A way of organizing the plot to ensure that vital information is kept from the characters and/or the audience until the last minute, which then makes the climax have more of an impact	Climactic Order	67%
The point of highest tension in the story; also where the crisis is generally resolved	Climax	67%
A word or phrase used in normal or informal language and settings, but not in more formal ones	Colloquialism	67%
Overall language used in ordinary or informal settings, designed to put the speaker and listener on an equal verbal footing	Colloquial Language	67%
A comic element put into a tragic or serious work in order to provide some momentary light relief	Comic Relief	67%
Generally a literary work that compares the similarities and differences of something	Compare and Contrast	67%
Relating the similarities of 2 different things; also the degree to which something's value relates to something else	Comparison	67%
The opposition of 2 forces or characters	Conflict	67%
The implications or suggestions that people associate with a particular word	Connotation	67%
Identifying the differences between 2 things	Contrast	67%
The thing or situation to which a word refers, a definition, or literal meaning	Denotation	67%
A person's private, everyday autobiographical writings	Diary	67%
The choice and arrangement of words in a literary work	Diction	67%
The choice between 2 unpleasent outcomes; often involves a character's moral or ethical issues	Dilemna	67%
When a character's traits, motivations, etc... are actually described by the author	Direct Presentation	67%
Character whose traits/motivations change over the course of the plot - the character learns something from his/her experience	Dynamic Character	67%
A newspaper article that expresses someone's opinion on something; written either by the paper's editor, or as a letter sent to him/her by a reader in response to something	Editorial	67%
A sudden understanding or realization about something; often shown as a lightbulb appearing over someone's head	Epiphany	67%
Agreeable sounds as well as word combinations that are pleasing to the ear and mind	Euphony	67%
The evidence given by someone who has recognized expertise in a particular area, such that his or her opinion can be relied upon during legal proceedings	Expert Testimony	67%
When a metaphor is continued into the sentences beyond in order to continue the analogy	Extended Metaphor	67%
Conflict that originates outside the protagonist(s)	External Conflict	67%
A brief story which illustrates a moral truth	Fable	67%
The plot climax wrapping up of plot points	Falling Action	67%
Narrative told from the point of view of 'I'	First person POV	67%
Any character who has few traits, or whose personality is based on a single trait or quality	Flat Character	67%
The straight man in a comedy double act, whose job it is to endure the laughter of the other person	Foil	67%
Events or character experiences that can be seen to hint as to what will happen later on	Foreshadowing	67%
Language used without slang, colloquiallisms, or informal language in order to reflect the seriousness of the subjec matter	Formal Language	67%
A character with admirable traits such as courage, idealism, fortitude; also can be a generic term for the protagonist	Hero	67%
The use of images in literature to add meaning	Imagery	67%
When the reader learns about a character through his/her actions, or the explanations of these actions by other characters	Indirect Presentation	67%
Essay that uses informal, everyday language and conventions	Informal Essay	67%
Language not designed for serious topics of discussion	Informal Language	67%
Person telling a story	Narrator	67%
What happens in a story	Plot	67%
An extended speech in which a single onstage character expresses thoughts aloud so the audience can hear	Soliloquy	67%
A set of assumptions about someone or a group of people; often with little basis in fact or reality	Stereotype	67%
Gives details, facts, or figures for the specified topic; supporting evidence should be provable and measurable	Descriptive Essay	33%
The words spoken by characters to each other in a narrative or a play	Dialogue	33%
The use of a literary work to explain some moral, political, religious, etc... teachings or beliefs	Didactic	33%
A work designed to be represented on the stage by actors; term restricted to serious plays only	Drama	33%
The type of drama being presented - tragedy, comedy, farce, etc...	Dramatic Form	33%
Used to describe a situation when a character in a play speaks lines that have a double meaning to the audience, but not to the characters on stage	Dramatic Irony	33%
A poem consisting of a single character's words that reveal his/her own thoughts, nature, or dramatic situation	Dramatic Monologue	33%
A passionately delivered speech done to engender feelings of sympathy or empathy in audience	Emotional Appeal	33%
The ending of a speech, fable, or play, in which the moral is identified	Epilogue	33%
To use a replacement word or phrase to describe something either unpleasent, or that would not fit into the present conversation	Euphemism	33%
The beginning of a short story or play in which the audience is given much needed background information	Exposition	33%
Explaining the topic; using a combination of fact and opinion to support the thesis	Expository Essay	33%
A literary work's rapid departure from what would be considered normal life; often requires a sustained suspension of disbelief	Fantasy	33%
Any play which invokes laughter through the use of 'low' or physical comedy, clowning around, etc...	Farce	33%
Language which uses figures of speech to compare dissimilar objects; often uses similes and metaphors, etc...	Figurative Language	33%
An inserted scene which gives information about events which happened at an earlier time	Flashback	33%
A serious work of literature, suing formal language and essay structure	Formal Essay	33%
A 'story within a story', in which both are of equal interest to the audience	Frame Story	33%
A 'type' of literature	Genre	33%
Text that is seperate from the main body of a literary work; often another colour, font, size, etc...	Graphic Text	33%
When a reference is made in a literary work to an actual event that occured in the past - an event that the audience will recognize and draw conclusions from; only works if the audience knows what is being referred	Historical Reference	33%
An expression, word, or phrase that has figurative as well as literal meaning	Idiom	33%
An ending in which the outcome of the plot is not immediately clear	Indeterminate Ending	33%
When a character in a play is thinking to him/herself, although of course he/she must actually speak out loud, so the audience can hear it	Interior Monologue	33%
Person vs self; when a character wrestles with hard choices from within	Internal Conflict	33%
A device in which the writer expresses a meaning that is different frm the meaning of words; usually comes across as humorous or sarcastic	Irony	33%
Specific words or language used by a certain group, usually technical or professional	Jargon	33%
The putting together of two or more unlikely things	Juxtaposition	33%
A well-known story which has basis in fact but may contain imaginary material	Legend	33%
The feeling or atmosphere presented in a literary work	Mood	33%
A story which engenders curiosity and suspense due to concealed facts	Mystery	33%
A supposedly historical anonymous tale, the origins of which are unknown	Myth	33%
Story as told by the narrator	Narration	33%
POV in which the Narrator, 'God like', knows everything about everyting	Omniscient POV	33%
An apparently contradictory statement which does actually contain truth that reconciles the seeming opposites	Paradox	33%
Expression in which the subject of the sentence carries out the action indirectly	Passive Voice	33%
An essay that must prove a position and attempt to convince the audience of the position; combines logic and emotion to spur the audience to some form of action	Persuasive Essay	33%
The particular perspective a story is told from	Point of View	33%
Technique that compares and contrasts an idea's good and bad points	Pro/Con Argument	33%
'blurb' at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot, theme, or action	Prologue	33%
The main character in a story	Protagonist	33%
To look stuff up	Research	33%
A question asked, not to seek an answer, but for dramatic effect	Rhetorical Question	33%
The sequence of plot events that leads to the climax	Rising Action	33%
A character who displays many traits	Round Character	33%
The ridiculing of any subject in order to demeen it and make it laughable	Satire	33%
Where and when a story takes place	Setting	33%
Character whose traits do not change throughout the story	Static Character	33%
The particular way in which a writer carries on in terms of word choice, sentence structure, rhythms, use of language, etc...	Style	33%
Plot conclusion that was not forseen by the reader/audience	Surprise Ending	33%
Something that represents both itself and something else	Symbol	33%
The overall use of symbols in a narrative	Symbolism	33%
The central idea, thesis, or subject of a work, stated directly or indirectly; different from moral, which is the esson that can be extracted from a work	Theme	33%
POV in which the action is described by an external narrator, who may or may not have much insight into the thoughts and motives of the characters	Third Person POV	33%
POV in which the narrator gives the reader an idea about his/her inner thoughts and self, but cannot do so for others - the reader is left to discover them through their words and actions	Limited Omniscent POV	0%
Words or phrases that are to be understood exactly as they are, with no interpretative or figurative meanings involved	Literal Language	0%
Originally menat as a synonym for opera, but now means anything that is deliberately overacted in a dramatic fashion	Melodrama	0%
An extended speech delivered by one person	Monologue	0%
A story told by a narrator	Narrative	0%
When an author presents his or her characters in an impersonal non-committal fashion without offering any judgement on them or their actions	Objective	0%
A story in which a character's actions are not commented on tonally by the author	Objective POV	0%
A figure of speech that presents two apparently contradictry terms in a paradoxial way	Oxymoron	0%
The arrangement of equally important ideas, presented in a similar way, which then indicates their equal importance	Parallelism	0%
To ridicule a specific type of literature by recreating its style in a comic manner	Parody	0%
Literature that deliberately seeks to evoke sympaty, pity, tenderness, etc... from its audience	Pathos	0%
Essay in which the author asserts an opinion without having to prove a verifiable point	Personal Essay	0%
Term used to describe method used to attempt to change someone's opinion	Persuasive Technique	0%
Literature devised and distributed in order to put forward a persuasive argument; can also b used to dissuade people from doing something	Propaganda	0%
A short saying, often one that has a lesson behind it	Proverb	0%
A play on words involving: the use of a word with two meanings, the similarity of two words that are spelled differently but sound the same, two words that look the same but have different meanings	Pun	0%
The reason why something happens	Purpose	0%
Debating method where an argument is given and explained through deliberate interactions between characters	Question and Answer	0%
The events following the climax of a play or story; also known as falling action	Resolution	0%
An ironic verbal device, in which what is said is actually opposite of what is meant, or involves a mildly insulting play on words	Sarcasm	0%
Informal words that take the place of more formal language	Slang	0%
The person doing the talking	Speaker	0%
Evidence based on scientific numerical proof	Statistical Evidence	0%
Character who is representative of a general class of people and displays the 'usual' assumed traits associated with them	Stock/Stereotyped Character	0%
A secondary plot sequence and/or its particular point of delivery	Story within a Story	0%
Term that describes the inner experience and feelings through the mind of a character; can also refer to a type of writing done without pause or editing	Stream of Consciousness	0%
A recognizable version of the above, by a particular writer or group of writers	Stylistic Technique	0%
Writing in which the expression of personal feeling or experience is most important	Subjective	0%
An expectant uncertainty concerning the outcome of the plot	Suspense	0%
The stated main arument or point that a work is written around, or that the author is trying to make	Thesis	0%
The actual wording of this in a formal literary work such as an essay	Thesis Statement	0%
The particular 'voice' an author uses in a work, which may indicate his/her attitude towards the subject matter	Tone	0%
Generally, a plot in which unfortunate events take place, especiallly the death(s) of many of the main character(s)	Tragedy	0%
The deliberate downplaying of something to make it seem less than it really is	Understatement	0%
The character or 'mask' taken on by the speaker or narrator in a poem or work of fiction	Voice	0%
Intellectually amusing phrases designed to delight and surprise	Wit	0%