Literary Terms
This is a chain of related events that tells what happens in a story
What is plot?
This is the type of relationship that Antionio and Felix share.
What are childhood friends?
This is where Xiong's story begins.
Where is Laos?
This is revealed at the end of a story.
What is the resolution?
This is a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
This is a short work of fiction that has around 5-20 pages.
What is a short story?
This character has a chance to train in the Bronx.
Who is Felix?
Xiong compares her experience to this.
What is a bad dream?
This reveals the characters, setting, and main conflict in a story.
What is the exposition?
This refers back to some person or thing previously mentioned.
What is a pronoun?
This is the story of a real person's life that is written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
This is the better boxer.
Who is Antonio?
This was the author's father's job at the beginning of the story.
What is a soldier fighting for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)?
This is where a story's plot thickens and conflict grows.
What is the rising action?
These connect together two or more of the same types of words, phrases, or clauses.
What are coordinating conjunctions/FANBOYS?
This is another word for conflict.
What is a problem?
This shows that the crowd is shocked by the way the boys are fighting.
What is the crowd's silence?
This is causes the death of Maijue's baby sister in the refugee camp.
What is malnutrition?
This is the most intense part of a story.
What is the climax?
This is a way of making your writing better by using stronger vocabulary or more complex sentence structure.
What is a dress-up?
This is used when authors put events in the sequence, or order, in which they happened.
What is chronological order?
This phrase in the story showed that the boys felt tension and competition growing.
What is "sensed a wall rising between them?"
This event causes Maijue's family to leave Laos.
What is Communist forces take over in Laos?
A heavily wooded forest at midnight is an example of this.
What is the setting of a story?
These are words that can easily be confused and can be possessive or a contraction?
What is its/it's?