Fiction Vocabulary Quiz

a short tale that teaches a moral or lesson usually with animal characters

• Fable

• Book

• Legend

• Plot

a traditional story that has been passed down and told as a matter of history but cannot be verified; has important significance to the culture from which it originated

• Holes

• Legend

• Tall Tale

• Events

a body of traditional or sacred stories to explain a belief or a natural happening

• The White Witch

• Folktale

• Myth

• Theme

is the "big idea" of the text or a part of the text. It is what the author wants the reader to learn or take away from reading the text.

• Character

• Author's Message

• Theme

• Balloon

the central or universal idea of a literary work that often relates to morals and/or values and speaks to the human experience/condition

• The World

• Author's Message

• Theme

• Climax

a person in a novel, play, or movie

• Fable

• Falling Action

• Ms. Palacios

• Character

the highest point in the plot where the problem/conflict reaches its peak

• Mount Rushmore

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Relationship

in literature, the opposition of persons or forces that brings about dramatic action central to the plot of the story

• Conflict

• Edmund

• Rising Action

• Genre

the basic sequence of events in a story that includes the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution

• Legend

• Evidence

• Plot

• Genre

the point in a literary work at which the story's problem is worked out

• Theme

• Resolution

• Events

• Revision