Vocabulary #1 Review

What is the purpose of the exposition in a story?

• To introduce the characters and describe the setting

• To build suspense and complicate the problem

• To provide the resolution and ending of the story

• To hint at events that may happen later in the story

What happens during the rising action of a story?

• The problem becomes more complicated

• The outcome of the story is revealed

• The most intense part of the story occurs

• The events after the climax lead to the resolution

What is the climax of a story?

• The most intense or exciting part of the story

• The events that happen after the climax

• The outcome or ending of the story

• The act of examining something in detail

What is the falling action in a story?

• The events that happen after the climax

• The outcome or ending of the story

• The act of examining something in detail

• The feeling of excitement or nervousness

What is the resolution of a story?

• The outcome or ending of the story

• The most intense or exciting part of the story

• The events that happen after the climax

• The act of examining something in detail

What does it mean to analyze something?

• To examine something in detail in order to understand it

• To express something in new words to make the meaning clearer

• To establish by legal or authoritative act

• To make less or cause to appear less

What does it mean to paraphrase something?

• To express something in new words to make the meaning clearer

• To examine something in detail in order to understand it

• To establish by legal or authoritative act

• To make less or cause to appear less

What does it mean to be thorough?

• To be complete with regard to every detail

• To express something in new words to make the meaning clearer

• To establish by legal or authoritative act

• To make less or cause to appear less

What is foreshadowing in a story?

• A literary device that hints at events that may happen later

• To establish by legal or authoritative act

• To act out

• The feeling of excitement or nervousness

What does it mean to enact something?

• To establish by legal or authoritative act; to make into law

  To act out

• To put something in your own words to better understand

• To examine something in detail in order to understand it

• To make less or cause to appear less