Fiction Vocabulary

When the story is told by a character inside the story

• 1st Person POV

• 3rd Person POV

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

When a story is told by a narrator outside the story

• 1st Person POV

• 3rd Person POV

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

People or animals in the story that add to the plot

• Conflict

• Character

• Narrator

• Climax

A word that describes the personality of a character

• Conflict

• Myth

• Character trait

• Dialogue

The main action or turning point of the story

• Character

• Conflict

• Problem

• Climax

The disagreement in the story.  It can be between two characters, between the character and him/herself, or the character and society

• Conflict

• Resolution

• Idiom

• Setting

The words actually spoken by characters in the story

• Narrator

• Perspective

• Dialogue

• Solution

A short story, often with animals as characters, that is told to teach a lesson or moral

• Idiom

• Character

• Fable

• Climax

A common saying that means something different than what is written

• Perspective

• Idiom

• Simile

• Climax

A traditional story used by a cultural group to explain why things are the way they are

• Idiom

• Problem

• Myth

• Narrator