Unit 2 Midterm Review

used to introduce background information about a story's events, settings, characters, etc. to readers

• falling action
• rising action
• climax
• exposition

person, animal, being, creature, or thing in a story

• characters
• setting
• theme
• plot

the time and place in which a story is told

• plot
• characters
• setting
• conflict

struggle between two opposing forces

• conflict
• climax
• setting
• theme

lesson, message, or moral the author wants the character or reader to learn

• main idea
• theme
• conflict
• plot

a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest (climax)

• exposition
• falling action
• resolution
• rising action

the point of highest dramatic tension or a major turning point in the action

• climax
• exposition
• rising action
• falling action

the series of events that wind the story down from the climax to the resolution and the story's end

• rising action
• falling action
• resolution
• exposition

conclusion of the story's plot / the part of the story's plot where the main problem is resolved or worked out

• falling action
• exposition
• resolution
• rising action

decrease; to grow less

• abate
• acquire
• braggart
• capricious