Fiction Vocabulary Review

sequence or order of events in a story; each event in the story often affects the next through cause-and-effect

• characterization

• plot

• resolution

• tone

the place or type of surroundings where a story takes place

• diction

• exposition

• setting

• motivation

the principal character in a story who changes throughout the course of the story

• protagonist

• connotation

• characterization

• exposition

the character who contends with or opposes the protagonist in a story

• protagonist

• characterization

• diction

• antagonist

a process used to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story

• antagonist

• characterization

• imagery

• simile

introducing background information about events, settings, characters, or other elements of a work to the audience or readers

• setting

• resolution

• metaphor

• exposition

point in a story where the conflict is brought to an end

• resolution

• connotation

• imagery

• exposition

an author’s word choice in a story

• denotation

• connotation

• diction

• metaphor

the dictionary definition of the word

• exposition

• diction

• personification

• denotation

a meaning of a word taken from an association or understanding

• connotation

• simile

• moral dilemma

• diction