Vocabulary Quiz 1

a make believe story that is meant to entertain readers, but has elements that could not happen in real life. Fiction involves a plot, characters, and a setting.

• Plot

• Fiction

• Climax

• Setting

a made up story that has events that could take place in real life. The characters speak and act just life real people do. The plot, events, and settings are all believable

• Ficton

• nonfiction

• Realistic Fiction

• Climax

a story based on historical events or people, but the story is not real or has elements that are not real.

• Historical fiction

• fiction

• Raising action

• Setting

factual writing about people, place, events, ideas, or things

• Narrator

• Characters

• Plot

• nonfiction

the events that make the main part of a story. The events in a plot raise to the conflict or climax (main action) and fall to a conclusion or end with a resolution.

• fiction

• climax

• setting

• plot

the high point of interest or suspense where something important happens; most of the time this is the height of the problem.

• fiction

• Interaction of Characters

• climax

• setting

the events that lead up to the problem, or climax

• Raising Action

• Narrator

• Falling Action

• Nonfiction

the events that end or wrap up the story.

• Raisin action

• setting

• Characters

• Falling action

the time and place the action happens

• plot

• setting

• characters

• narrator

the person telling the story

• Interaction of characters

• setting

• characters

• narrator