Semester 1 Vocabulary Final (2023)

Events that follow the climax in which tension decreases.

• falling action
• rising action
• resolution
• exposition

A character or force in conflict with the main character.

• plot
• protagonist
• antagonist
• novel

A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.

• literal language
• novella
• figurative language
• rising action

A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances.

• exposition
• plot
• resolution
• novel

Chief character in a dramatic or narrative work, usually trying to accomplish some objective or working toward some goal.

• antagonist
• biography
• plot
• protagonist

A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.

• novella
• biography
• literal language
• figurative language

A message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader.

• irony
• prose
• mood
• theme

A speaker or character who tells a story.

• prose
• irony
• imagery
• narrator

Point of view in which the narrator is an outsider and which presents the feelings and thoughts of only one character, presenting only the actions of all remaining characters.

• point of view
• third person omniscient
• third person limited
• theme

The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.

• irony
• theme
• prose
• setting