Elements of Fiction Vocabulary Review

The time and place of a fiction story.

• characterization

• plot

• theme

• setting

This is the author's underlying message or moral.

• characterization

• theme

• setting

• plot

This part of plot is the events that lead up to the climax.

• resolution

• conflict

• rising action

• falling action

What is a character?

• a break or pause in the middle of a line of verse.

• a short statement of a general truth, insight, or good advice.

• a person, animal, being, creature, or thing in a story.

• language used by poets, novelists and other writers to create images in the mind of the reader.

What is setting?

• a story, often intended for children, that features fanciful and wondrous characters such as elves, goblins, wizards, and even, but not necessarily, fairies.

• a genre of fiction that concentrates on imaginary elements (the fantastic).

• an unsuspected occurrence or turn of events in the story that completely changes the direction or outcome of the plot from the direction it was likely to go.

• the time and place (or when and where) of the story.

The first paragraph or paragraphs in which the characters, setting (time and place), and basic information is introduced.

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Resolution

• Exposition

What's plot?

• the combination of consistently copied consonants!

• a figure of speech that puts together opposite elements.

• a literary term used to describe the events that make up a story, or the main part of a story.

• any image or thing that stands for something else.

What is that particular point in a narrative at which the conflict or tension hits the highest point?

• Climax

• Resolution

• Falling Action

• Theme

Conflicts are...

• the different settings of a story

• problems that the characters experience

• always at the very end of a story

• a character's personality

When or where a story takes place is called...

• resolution

• theme

• conflict

• setting