Fiction Vocabulary

Fiction Fun

Practicing Vocabulary for Fiction

Fiction-an imagined story that is meant to entertain readers and involves a plot, characters, and a setting.

• Fable: a story that uses animals to teach a valuable life lesson or moral.

• Legend: a story from the past believed by many but cannot be proven true.

• Myth: a story that explains a natural phenomenon

• Historical Fiction: a story set in a real time in history with fictional characters

• Realistic Fiction: a story with realistic characters and settings and events that could really happen.

Multiple Choice

Fiction is ....

• A story that is true and will give you information

• A story that is made up with characters, setting and plot.

Multiple Choice

A story with realistic characters and settings and events that could really happen.

• fable

• myth

• realistic fiction

Characters

• the person or animal in a story

• sometimes an object will have human qualities

• there can be main characters who are the center of the action and supporting characters who have a small part in the action.

Multiple Choice

In the story "Home of the Brave", Kek is the _______

• supporting character

• main character

Setting

• the time and place the action happens.

Plot

• the events that make up the main part of a story.

• the events in a plot rise to the conflict or climax (main action) and fall to a conclusion or end with a resolution.

Multiple Choice

The setting in "Home of Brave" is

• America/Minnesota

• Africa

Multiple Choice

In "Home of the Brave" Kek learning to adjust to his new life in Minnesota, is an example of the ________

• setting

• character

• plot

Mood

• is the feeling that is created in the story.

Point of View

• the narrators position on the events in the story.

Summary

• a short statement of the main points of a story that leaves out some of the details that aren't important.

Multiple Choice

________ is the feeling that is created in the story.

• point of view

• mood

• summary

Multiple Choice

A short statement of the main points of a story that leaves out some of the details that aren't important is called _______

• plot

• setting

• summary

• problem

Multiple Choice

_____ is the narrator's position on the events in the story.

• point of view

• summary

• mood