List 4 Reading Vocabulary

a literary device that is an indirect or implied reference to a person, place, event, or another work of literature

• alliteration

• allusion

• flashback

• mood

the background information on the characters and setting explained at the beginning of the story

• irony

• climax

• exposition

• resolution

a transition in a story to an earlier event or scene

• climax

• foreshadowing

• resolution

• flashback

an extreme exaggeration

• hyperbole

• idiom

• mood

• personification

when something unexpected happens or is said

• mood

• irony

• resolution

• climax

the use of words which sound like what they mean

• alliteration

• allusion

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

the conclusion to the story's plot

• exposition

• falling action

• resolution

• climax

a series of plot events that build up toward the climax

• falling action

• resolution

• exposition

• rising action

giving an object human-like qualities

• mood

• personification

• hyperbole

• idiom

the emotions that a text evokes from the reader

• flashback

• idiom

• mood

• allusion