Chapter 5 Vocabulary Quiz

The most important element of a story. A sequence of events and, in that sequence, we learn more about the characters, the setting, and the moral of the story.

• Plot

• Climax

• Allegory

• Exposition

A person, animal, being, creature, or thing in a story that perform the actions and speak dialogue, moving the story along a plot line. There can be more than one of these.

• Conflict

• Characterization

• Exposition

• Characters

A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.

• Hint

• Foreshadow

• Action

• Climax

A related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.

• Falling Action

• Resolution

• Rising Action

• Exposition

Show the reader a little bit of the location and what kind of time is involved in the story, along with some of the major characters.

• Characters

• Exposition

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

The highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of the story.

• Resoluation

• Rising Action

• Resolution

• Climax

Happens near the end of a story after the climax and resolution of the major conflict.

• Falling Action

• Allegory

• Resolution

• Conflict

The conclusion of the story's plot.

• End

• Exposition

• Resolution

• Falling Action

A literary device characterized by a struggle between two opposing forces.

• Climax

• Conflict

• Exposition

• Resolution

Expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence.

• Falling Action

• Hyperbole

• Fiction

• Allegory