Unit 5

Introduces the character and setting, and provides background information

• plot

• exposition

• climax

A series of events that builds from the conflict. It begins with the inciting force and ends with the climax.

• rising action

• resolution

• metaphor

The perspective from which a story is told

• conflict

• point of view

• theme

A state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen.

• antagonist

• setting

• suspense

End of the story where loose ends are tied up

• falling action

• resolution

• character

A person in a story

• simile

• third person

• character

Most exciting moment of the story; turning point

• first person point of view

• internal conflict

• climax

Main character in a story

• protagonist

• antagonist

• character

Sequence of events in a story

• falling action

• plot

• conflict

A character or force in conflict with the main character

• theme

• external conflict

• antagonist