Structure of Fiction Vocabulary

Gives you background knowledge about the story.

• rising action

• exposition

• theme

• conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The people or animals in a story.

• plot

• setting

• resolution

• characters

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

The place and time the story takes place.

• characters

• setting

• plot

• theme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

All the events that happen in a story.

• conflict

• setting

• plot

• resolution

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

The problem faced by the characters in the story.

• conflict

• plot

• resolution

• climax

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

The turning point or the most intense moment of the story.

• theme

• plot

• climax

• conflict

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

The conclusion of the story where the conflict is resolved and we learn what happens to the characters.

• resolution

• climax

• falling action

• plot

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Stories that are made up

• theme

• plot

• characters

• fiction

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

the person telling the story

• conflict

• point of view

• theme

• rising action

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

A character in the story is telling the story (I, my, me, we)

• first person

• third person

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D