BMMS Narrative Vocab.

A judgment based on reasoning rather than on a direct or explicit statement. A conclusion based on facts or circumstances; understanding gained by "reading between the lines."

• historical fiction

• narrative

• inference

• exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances.

• inference

• exposition

• central idea

• narrative

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

A person, animal, or inanimate object portrayed in a literary work.

• first person

• character

• third person

• antagonist

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

A brief and often simplistic lesson that a reader may infer from a work of literature.

• diary/journal

• moral

• narrative

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

The narrator tells a listener what he/she has done or said, using the personal pronoun "you." This point of view is rare.

• second person

• first person

• third person

• antagonist

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.

• character

• antagonist

• third person

• first person

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

A conversation between characters.

• dialogue

• point of view

• narrative

• protagonist

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

The perspective from which a story is told.

• setting

• central idea

• point of view

• protagonist

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

The central idea or topic of a work of literature.

• climax

• setting

• point of view

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

The time and place in which a story unfolds.

• theme

• narrative

• climax

• setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3