6th Grade ELAR Vocab

What is a person in a novel, play, or movie called?

• Character

• Person

• Plot

• Conflict

The mental, moral, and physical qualities distinctive to an individual is called_____?

• Character

• Internal Characteristics

• Characterization

• External Characteristics

The main events of a play, novel, movie, presented by the author in a sequence is the ___________.

• exposition

• plot

• conflict

• climax

Introduces key background to a reader

Includes setting and characters

• plot

• climax

• exposition

• rising action

The major problem in the story...

• Plot

• Climax

• Inciting Problem

• Conflict

Builds the conflict and helps develop the characters

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

• Resolution

• Climax

Highest most exciting part of the story

Turning point in the story - often a change in a major character

• Conflict

• Plot

• Climax

• Falling Action

Plot slows and story starts moving to a resolution

• Resolution

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

• Conflict

The conclusion of the story, the conflict is resolved

• Resolution

• Plot

• Climax

• Exposition

The universal idea, lesson, or message explored throughout a story

• Mood

• Theme

• Tone

• Author's Craft