7th Grade Short Story Vocabulary

What is the setting of a story?

• When a story takes place

• Where a story takes place

• When and where a story takes place

• When your mom makes you put things on the table for dinner

This element describes the action in the story

• theme

• first person

• setting

• plot

What are the events that follow the climax, or the logical result of the climax, called?

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

• Climax

• Exposition

This is the struggle between two opposing forces, or the problem in the story

• Conflict

• antagonist

• second person

• point of view

The final ending of the story is known as the

• resolution

• point of view

• rising action

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

The turning point of the story happens at the

• resolution

• climax

• rising action

• exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

The introduction to the characters, setting, and opening situation

• resolution

• expostiion

• theme

• mood

The lesson learned from a story, or the author's message, is the

• protagonist

• plot

• theme

• exposition

The main character in the story is the

• protagonist

• point of view

• antagonist

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

When the narrator of the story is not in the story, it is told in

• protagonist

• first person

• third person

• exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9