ELA Terms

the events that build a fictional story (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution)

• irony

• plot

• theme

• flashback

the time and place for a story or event

• theme

• plot

• setting

• title

A narrator with a third person LIMITED point of view___.

• knows the thoughts of only one character

• knows the thoughts of more than one character

A narrator with a third person OMNISCIENT point of view___.

• knows the thoughts of only one character

• knows the thoughts of more than one character

A character who struggles with an INTERNAL conflict ____.

• has problems with his/her own feelings/thoughts

• has problems with another character

A character who struggles with an EXTERNAL conflict ____.

• has problems with his/her own feelings/thoughts

• has problems with another character or force in the story

a pause in the story to review an event that happened at an earlier time

• theme

• plot

• flashback

• irony

the author's message in a story, a universal truth, that can be applied to other situations

• foreshadowing

• conflict

• theme

• symbol

an unexpected twist of events

• theme

• irony

• flashback

• symbol

an object that represents something unlike itself

• theme

• symbol

• flashback

• conflict