Vocab Terms

A moral or lesson of the story

• main idea

• climax

• theme

• conflict

Conflict

• the problem in the story

• the main idea

• the OMG turning point

• the characters and setting

Inference

• the lesson learned

• the problem in a story

• what the story is about

• an educated guess

mood

• the lesson learned

• the feeling you get as the reader

• the problem of the story

• the main idea

explicit evidence

• what the story is about

• an educated guess

• evidence directly from the text

• the characters and setting

connotation

• an emotion or feeling attached to a word

• the lesson learned in the story

• what the article is about

• an expression or sentence that is not real

End of the story, the conflicts are resolved or ended, loose ends wrapped up, questions are answered.

• Climax
• Resolution
• Falling Action
• Exposition

Events that take place after the climax and prepare the story for its resolution

• Setting
• Exposition
• Falling Action
• Rising Action

Introduces the main characters, the setting, and the events that make the rest of the story possible

• Exposition
• Rising Action
• Plot
• Characters

Time and place of the story

• Setting
• Characters
• Plot
• Conflict