Indiana Academic Vocabulary List 2

the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.

• Setting

• Cite

• Theme

• Mood

a brief statement or account of the main points of something

• summary

• plot

• analyze

• stanza

a person in a novel, play, or movie.

• context

• media

• theme

• character

a person who delivers a commentary accompanying a movie, broadcast, piece of music

• mood

• narrator

• plot

• episode

a sequence of continuous action in a play, movie, opera, or book

• stanza

• scene

• plot

• resolution

the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.

• plot

• mood

• tone

• theme

a spoken or written account of connected events; a story.

• episode

• stanza

• plot

• narrative

a usually brief unit of action in a dramatic or literary work

• stanza

• episode

• theme

• central idea

what the text is mainly about

• summary

• plot

• central idea

• theme

end of the story after the climax

• theme

• resolution

• textual evidence

• tone