Fiction Vocabulary #1

an author's purposeful reference to something else in a literary work

• allusion

• antagonist

• climax

• conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

characters that are two-dimensional and are relatively uncomplicated

• antagonist

• connotation

• flat character

• conflict

Tags

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary

• antagonist

• conflict

• fiction

• flashback

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

moments identified by the author that relate to previous events

• fiction

• flashback

• conflict

• exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

the point in a narrative at which the conflict or tension hits the highest point

• climax

• dynamic character

• falling action

• conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

a literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces usually a protagonist and an antagonist

• conflict

• climax

• fiction

• flashback

Tags

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

direct and specific meaning

• connotation

• denotation

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

a character that changes throughout the course of the narrative

• flat character

• protagonist

• dynamic charcter

• fiction

Tags

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and. people

• denotation

• falling action

• fiction

• flashback

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

additional meaning associated with the word (emotions, ideas, and other words)

• denotation

• connotation

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4