Reading Test Terminology

What is the time and place of the action in a story or play called?

• Plot
• Setting
• Symbol
• Theme

True or false: Setting can influence the plot of a novel or short story.

• True

• False

Universal message the story conveys in a novel or short story.

• Theme
• Main idea
• Exposition
• Author's  purpose

End of the story where loose ends are tied up

• Conflict

• Resolution

• Exposition

• Climax

A struggle or problem in a story that the main character encounters.

• Resolution

• Conflict

• Exposition

• Climax

Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader

• Conflict

• Mood

• Plot

• Metaphor

Events after the climax, leading to the resolution

• Rising Action

• Exposition

• Falling Action

• Conflict

A series of events that builds from the conflict. It begins with the inciting force and ends with the climax.

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

• Conflict

• Resolution

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

• Conflict

• Exposition

• Resolution

• Setting

Sequence of events in a story

• Setting

• Plot

• Simile

• Metaphor