ELA terms for fiction

main character in a work of fiction

• protagonist

• antagonist

• author

• 1st person

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

• 1st person

• antagonist

• protagonist

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

• irony

• plot

• theme

• flashback

the time and place for a story or event

• theme

• plot

• setting

• title

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

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

A character who struggles with an INTERNAL conflict ____.

• has problems with his/her own feelings/thoughts

• has problems with another character

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

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

• theme

• plot

• flashback

• irony

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

• foreshadowing

• conflict

• theme

• symbol