8 Mid-Year Assessment

a subdivision of an act that changes for a new time or location

• act

• scene

• script

• stage directions

what happens in a story; the chain of events that make up a story

• theme

• plot

• climax

• dialogue

hints or clues that suggest what may happen later in a story

• motivation

• resolution

• foreshadowing

• metaphor

the most exciting or intense part of the story for the protagonist; a turning point in the story

• plot

• theme

• climax

• rising action

spoken dialogue by a character in a play

• script

• act

• scene

• line

the overall feeling or atmosphere created by a work of literature

• tone

• mood

• allusion

• theme

events that follow the climax and lead to the resolution

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

• resolution

where the setting, characters, and basic situation are revealed

• exposition

• rising action

• falling action

• resolution

the main character in a story

• protagonist

• antagonist

• personification

• idiom

a comparison of two things using like or as

• idiom

• simile

• metaphor

• personification