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2025
fiction - correct answers a narrative shaped or made from the author's
imagination. Parts of a fictional story, novel, or drama may refer to factual
reality, but the story and characters arise from musings of the creator
commercial fiction - correct answers fiction written to meet the taste of a wide
popular audience and relying usually on tested formulas for satisfying such
taste
literary fiction - correct answers fiction written with serious artistic intentions,
providing an imagined experience yielding authentic insights into some
significant aspect of life
suspence - correct answers the quality in a story or play that makes the
reader eager to discover what happens next and how it will end
plot - correct answers the sequence of incidents or events of which a story or
play is composed
structure - correct answers the sequential arrangement of plot elements in
fiction or drama. In poetry, the internal organization of content
conflict - correct answers a clash of actions, desires, ideas, or goals in the plot
of a story or drama. It may exist between the main character and some other
person or persons; between the main character and some external force--
physical nature, society, or "fate"; or between the main character and some
destructive element in his or her own nature
, protagonist - correct answers the central character in a story or play
antagonist - correct answers any force in a story or play that is in conflict with
the protagonist. It may be another person, an aspect of the physical or social
environment, or a destructive element in the protagonist's own nature
flat character - correct answers a character whose distinguishing moral
qualities or personal traits are summed up in one or two traits. A character
who is not fully developed or convincing
round character - correct answers a character whose distinguishing moral
qualities or personal traits are complex and many-sided
stock character - correct answers a stereotyped character: one whose nature
is familiar to us from prototypes in previous literature
static character - correct answers a character who is the same sort of person
at the end of a work as the beginning
dynamic character - correct answers also known as a developing character,
one who during the course of a work undergoes a permanent change in some
distinguishing moral qualities or personal traits or outlook
foil character - correct answers a minor character whose situation or actions
parallel those of a major character, and thus by contrast sets off or illuminates
the major character; most often the contrast is complementary to the major
character