Academic Vocabulary - Fiction

The feeling created in the reader by a literary work (how you feel when reading)

• Mood

• Point of View

• First Person

• Third Person

Person telling the story

• Theme

• Point of View

• Dynamic Character

• Protagonist

Story is told by the main character in story (I or me).

• Antagonist

• Conflict

• First Person

• External Conflict

The story is told by narrator outside of story.

• Internal Conflict

• Mood

• Point of View

• Third Person

Central message or lesson from a literary work that can be applied to life.

• First Person

• Third Person

• Dynamic Character

• Theme

Character who changes or grows during the course of a work.

• Dynamic Character

• Static Character

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

Character that does not change

• Dynamic Character

• Static Character

• First Person

• Internal Conflict

Main character in a literary work

• First Person

• Third Person

• Protagonist

• Static Character

A character or a force in a conflict with a main character, or protagonist

• Antagonist

• Point of View

• External Conflict

• Internal Conflict

Struggle between opposing forces.

• Point of View

• Third Person

• Conflict

• Protagonist