Literary Terms

How many stages of plot are there?

• 7

• 5

• 2

• 3

This stage of plot introduces the setting, characters, and conflict.

• Climax

• Resolution

• Exposition

• Rising Actions

This stage of plot builds up to the climax of the story.

• Rising Action

• Resolution

• Climax

• Falling Action

This stage of plot happens after the turning point of the story where things start to wind down.

• Resolution

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Falling Action

This is the last stage of plot where the conflict may resolve and the story closes out.

• Climax

• Resolution

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

The stage of plot is the turning point of the story, where the story is the most tense or suspenseful

• Climax

• Resolution

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

This is what the story or passage is about when reading the text. It’s short and we can say it with just a word or simple phrase. It’s general.

• Theme

• Subject

• Main Idea

• Passage

This is what the author wants you to know about the subject in a text. It’s a complete sentence that includes a whole idea. It’s the big takeaway that you learned from reading. It’s more specific.

• Main Idea

• Theme

• Subject

• Topic

This is the message or moral of the story

• Topic

• Main Idea

• Theme

• Subject

What point of view uses "I, me, my" as pronouns?

• 3rd Person Limited

• 2nd Person

• 1st Person

• 3rd Person Omniscient