Vocabulary 1

A spoken or written account of connected events; a story.

• Exposition

• Flashback

• Point-of-view

• Narrative

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text

• Protaganist

• Antagonist

• Theme

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary

• Connotation

• Protaganist

• Narrator

• Antagonist

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The time and place a story is set

• Setting

• Mood

• Tone

• Climax

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

The events that make up a storyline

• Conflict

• Flashback

• Plot

• Resolution

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

A struggle between a character and an outside force (another character or nature).

• External conflict

• Climax

• Internal conflict

• Point-of-view

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

A struggle happening within a character’s mind.

• Faliing action

• External conflict

• Connotation

• Internal conflict

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The narrator's position in relation to the story being told

• Theme

• Foreshadowing

• Point-of-view

• Fiction

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

A literary device used to introduce background information about events, settings, characters etc. to the audience or readers

• Flat character

• Allusion

• Mood

• Exposition

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The event that sets the central conflict in motion

• Inciting incident

• Rising action

• Falling action

• Conclusion

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C