Topic 3 and 4 Vocab (1.3.1 - 1.4.3)

Setting and characters

• Exposition

• Conflict

• Rising Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Involves a character in conflict with himself or herself 

• External Conflict

• Internal Conflict

• Rising Action

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Involves a character struggling against an outside force 

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• External Conflict

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Build the story's tension

• Conflict

• Exposition

• Rising Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The problem in the story

• External Conflict

• Conflict

• Falling Action

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

Involves a character struggling against an outside force 

• Falling Action

• Exposition

• External Conflict

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Ties up loose ends after the characters face the main conflict 

• Resolution

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Winds the story down to an end 

 

• Resolution

• Conflict

• Exposition

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

An organizational tool that helps map the events of a story 

• Exposition

• Plot Diagram

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

A group of words that share the same origin or that are all formed from a common base word 

• Word Family

• Protagonist

• Characterization

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A