Fiction Vocabulary

the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character.

• Traits

• Idiom

• Characterization

• Context Clues

the beginning of a book or essay that states what the rest will be about.

• Climax

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Resolution

• Falling Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.W.5.1A

action that happens right after the climax of a story, where the tension decreases.

• Climax

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Resolution

• Falling Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

Where the conflict or problem is settled or solved.

• Climax

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Resolution

• Falling Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

a related series of events in the plot of a story that build toward the point of greatest interest.

• Climax

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Resolution

• Falling Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

Phrases that don't really mean what they literally say.

• Imagery

• Setting

• Trait

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5B

CCSS.RL.5.4

to use text and your background knowledge to reach a conclusion.

• Prediction

• Inference

• Summary

• Setting

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RL.5.1

a restatement of what has been said.

• Plot

• Paraphrase

• Theme

• Summary

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.SL.5.2

CCSS.W.5.8

the time and location in which a literary or dramatic work takes place.

• Characters

• Exposition

• Setting

• Plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

a message about life and human behavior that an author expresses in a text.

• Theme

• Trait

• Idiom

• Claim

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2