9 Weeks Test Review - 8th grade

Plot is

• The main events of a novel; sequence

• a plan made in secret by a group of people to do something illegal

• a line that tells how a story goes

• how a story is lined out by the narrator of the story

Exposition includes

• the rising and falling action

• the setting, characters, and inciting incident

• the setting and the mood

• the resolution

Rising Action is

• where the climax is located

• introduces us to the characters

• where the conflict begins to escalate

• where the resolution comes in

Climax is

• the most exciting point in the story

• the point in the story where the resolution takes place

• where you meet the characters

• are introduced to the conflict

Falling Action is

• what happens when the main character hits a slow spot in the story

• where all the loose ends get tied up

• where you meet the main characters

• where you learn more about the conflict

Resolution is

• the most exciting point of the story

• the part where all the characters make up

• the point in the story where the conflict is finally resolved

• the end of the story where you learn about what happened to all the other characters and conflicts

Tone is

• The way the author expresses his feelings in his writing

• the way the story makes you feel

• the way the narrator feels

• the way the setting makes you feel

Mood is

• how the author expresses his feelings about the subject of his writing

• the way the narrator feels

• the way the other characters feel

• How the story makes the readers feel

Narrator is

• another name for author

• the person telling the story

• the other characters being talked about in the story

• the main character in the story

First person point of view

• The narrator is observing the story then telling about it.

• The narrator is being told the story then they are telling it

• The narrator is a part of the story being told

• The narrator is telling the first person he sees the story