Fiction STAAR Vocabulary

The _____ of the story had many twists and turns.

• setting

• plot

• foreshadow

• point of View

When an author gives hints or suggestions to what happens later in a story, it is called...

• suspense

• moral

• foreshadowing

• events

3rd person omniscient is when...

• where the story is narrated by one character at a time. This character may be speaking about him or herself or sharing events that he or she is experiencing.

• the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character. All characters are described using pronouns, such as 'they', 'he', and 'she'. But, one character is closely followed throughout the story, and it is typically a main character.

• the narrator knows all the thoughts, actions, and feelings of all characters. The author may move from character to character to show how each one contributes to the plot.

Fiction

• has characters and setting

• gives facts

• has a plot

• gives information

• not real

Mario had been feeding him all the things he liked himself, but now it occurred to him that what was good for a boy might not be right for a cricket. So he made up his mind to take the matter to an expert. Late one afternoon, Mario cleaned up the cricket cage and took Chester the cricket to Mr. Fong's pet shop.

Read the dictionary definition for the word matter.

Which definition best fits the way the word matter is used in paragraph 1?

• Definition 1

• Definition 2

• Definition 3

• Definition 4

Foreshadow

• looking back into the past

• giving hints about something that might happen

• what the passage is mostly about

characters

• author's attitude

• main problem in a story

• words spoken by characters in a story

• main people, animals, or things in a story

speaker

• person telling the story, the narrator

• person reading the story

• group of lines in a poem, "paragraphs"

• sound words

What does 'rising action' mean?

• The events after the climax leading to the end

• The introduction of the story

• The events that create suspense, interest, and tension in a narrative

• The main character's background

What does 'character’s actions' refer to?

• What a character does

• The background of a character

• What a character thinks

• What a character says