Plot Vocabulary

What is a narrative?

• who is telling the story

• a story

• a summary

• the main character

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.10

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.6

What are characters?

• The people, animals, or talking objects who take part in the action of the story

• Where and when the story takes place

• The people or animals who take part in the action of the story

• The problem or conflict in the story

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

What is a main character?

• Where the story mostly takes place

• Who the story is mostly about

• The main problem or conflict in the story

• What the story is mostly about

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is setting?

• The beginning, middle, and end of a story

• When and where a story takes place

• The people, animals, or talking objects who take place in the action in the story

• The events leading up to the resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

What is a conflict?

• How a character feels at the end of the story

• How a problem is solved

• Something that goes wrong or needs to be fixed

• A word used to describe a character's personality

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

What is a resolution?

• How the conflict is resolved or how the story ends

• Where and when the story takes place

• The most important event in the story

• What the story is mostly about

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is an event?

• An important action in the story

• The lesson, moral, or message of a story

• An emotion that can change over a short period of time

• The reason why a character says or does something

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is a plot?

• The resolution of the conflict

• The conflict in the story

• The most important characters in the story

• The conflict, important events, and resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.4.5

What does it mean to summarize fiction?

• To retell every detail from the beginning, middle, and end of a story

• To tell the most important events in your own words; including characters, setting, and plot

• To tell the most important events from the beginning of a story

• To tell the most important events from the end of a story

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RI.6.2

What is theme?

• The lesson, moral, or message of a story

• Who the story is mostly about

• What the story is mostly about

• The plot of the story

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.9