Unit 1 Vocabulary

What is point of view?

• A struggle between characters or opposing forces

• The perspective from which the story is told

• The conflict in the story

• When and where a story takes place

What is cause and effect?

• When a character struggles with another character or opposing force

• When a character struggles with their own needs or emotions

• The time and place of the story

• A relationship in which an action or event produces a certain response

What is a narrative?

• A type of writing that tells a story
• A figure of speech
• A brief history
• The person telling the story

The person telling the story is known as the 

• character
• friend
• narrator
• protagonist

Thinking back to an earlier time or event is a 

• foreshadowing
• dream
• flashback
• failure

A conclusion about ideas or information not directly stated

• tone

• diction

• inference

• narrative

a category or type of literature such as mystery, fiction, romance, sci-fi...

• stanza

• genre

• narrative

• coherence

a story about something that happened

• narrative

• stanza

• effective

• genre

how a writer develops characters, through dialogue, description, and actions

• coherence

• genre

• characterization

• connotation

the way one thing of event influences another; consequence

• symbol

• symbolism

• effect

• effective