The Basic 25

The reader the text was intended for...

• Dialogue

• Mood

• Audience

• Theme

Words spoken by characters in a story (identified with quotation marks).

• Inference

• Dialogue

• Exposition

• Climax

a struggle between two opposing forces; internally or externally

• Point of View

• Inciting Incident

• Antagonist

• Conflict

The main character of the story.

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Characterization

• Narrator

When the plot stops and goes back in time to show a previous event.

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• Structure

• Plot

A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.

• Climax

• Inference

• Conflict

• Theme

The beginning of the story when characters, setting and major conflicts are introduced.

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

• Exposition

First Person POV: A character is the narrator. Third Person POV: An outside voice is the narrator.

• Author's Purpose

• Dialogue

• Narrator

• Point of View

The scenes that come after the conflict is resolved. The wrap up of the story.

• Inciting Incident

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Exposition

The moment when the main conflict begins or becomes more serious. When you know the problem is a problem.

• Climax

• Inciting Incident

• Falling Action

• Rising Action