Language Arts Story Vocabulary

Describes the many events that make up a story. ______ includes exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution

• Plot

• Falling action

• climax

• characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

can be defined as any person, animal, or figure represented in a literary work

• narrator

• characterization

• The character

• resolution

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CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

A person who tells a story; in literature, the voice that an author takes on to tell a story

• climax

• Point of view

• character

• The narrator

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

the part of the ____ that introduces background information about events, settings, characters, or other elements of a work to the audience or readers

• rising action

• Exposition

• plot

• resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

includes all decisions, characters' flaws, and background circumstances that together create turns and twists leading to the.......

• climax

• resolution

• Rising Action

• Falling action

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

the term used to refer to the part of story or play where the tension or action reaches its highest part. Sometimes, the ______ is a "crisis" point in the plot.

• Climax

• Theme

• setting

• Falling action

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

_____________ occurs right after the climax, when the main problem of the story begins to fall into place and resolve

• rising action

• Falling action

• resolution

• setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

In a work of literature, the ________ is the part of the story's plot where the main problem is resolved or worked out. The ________ occurs after the falling action and is typically where the story ends

• climax

• exposition

• inciting incident

• Resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

The ________ of a piece of literature is the time and place in which the story takes place

• Scene

• Setting

• climax

• Theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

_______ is a literary device that is used step-by-step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story.____________ can be DIRECT (meaning the author tells you exactly what the character is like) or INDIRECT (meaning the author shows you what the character is like through the character's actions, words, or thoughts)

• Scene

• Characterization

• Plot

• Theme

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D