Unit 3 Vocab Test

A person or thing who plays a role in a book, play, or movie.

• Character

• Narrator

• Illustrator

• Voice

the highest point in the plot where the problem/conflict reaches its peak

• falling action

• plot

• climax

• rising action

the element of plot structure that takes place after the climax and begins to resolve the conflict(s) of the story before the resolution

• character

• falling action

• figurative language

• climax

language not intended to be taken literally but layered with meaning through the use of imagery, metaphors, and other literary devices

• figurative language

• metaphor

• plot

• genre

the type or class of a work, usually categorized by form, technique, or content

• genre

• metaphor

• point of view

• plot

the use of language to create mental images and sensory impressions. Imagery can be used for emotional effect and to intensify the impact on the reader

• point of view

• imagery

• falling action

• theme

a subtle comparison in which the author describes a person or thing using words that are not meant to be taken literally

• metaphor

• idiom

• hyperbole

• simile

the basic sequence of events in a story that includes the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution

• resolution

• plot

• rising action

• setting

the perspective from which the events in the story are told by the narrator

• point of view

• setting

• figurative language

• resolution

the point in a literary work at which the story’s problem is worked out

• climax

• exposition

• falling action

• resolution