ELA terms for fiction

main character in a work of fiction

• protagonist

• antagonist

• author

• 1st person

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character in a work of fiction who pushes the main character to face his/her conflicts

• 1st person

• antagonist

• protagonist

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the events that build a fictional story (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution)

• irony

• plot

• theme

• flashback

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the time and place for a story or event

• theme

• plot

• setting

• title

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A narrator with a third person LIMITED point of view___.

• knows the thoughts of only one character

• knows the thoughts of more than one character

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A narrator with a third person OMNISCIENT point of view___.

• knows the thoughts of only one character

• knows the thoughts of more than one character

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A character who struggles with an INTERNAL conflict ____.

• has problems with his/her own feelings/thoughts

• has problems with another character

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A character who struggles with an EXTERNAL conflict ____.

• has problems with his/her own feelings/thoughts

• has problems with another character or force in the story

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a pause in the story to review an event that happened at an earlier time

• theme

• plot

• flashback

• irony

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the author's message in a story, a universal truth, that can be applied to other situations

• foreshadowing

• conflict

• theme

• symbol

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3