Fiction Vocabulary Quiz

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

• Fable

• Book

• Legend

• Plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

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

• The White Witch

• Folktale

• Myth

• Theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

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

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.RI.5.4

a person in a novel, play, or movie

• Fable

• Falling Action

• Ms. Palacios

• Character

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

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

• Mount Rushmore

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Relationship

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.4.5

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.2.3

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

• Legend

• Evidence

• Plot

• Genre

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

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

• Theme

• Resolution

• Events

• Revision

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.2.3