Story Vocabulary
This is the main character in a story
What is the Protagonist?
This is the beginning of the plot, where the setting, characters and basic situation are revealed
What is Exposition?
This is adjectives that describe a character on the inside
What is character traits?
This is a comparison of two unlike things using like or as
What is a simile?
These are hints or clues about what may happen next in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
This is the time and place of a story
What is the setting?
This is the most exciting or most intense part of the story.
What is the climax?
This was the main antagonist in The Adventures of Ulysses.
Who was Poseidon?
This is a comparison of two things by saying one thing is the other thing.
What is a metaphor?
This is the anxiety a reader feels about what may happen next in a story.
What is suspense?
This is what happens in a story. The chain of events that make up a story.
What is the plot?
This is the main part of a story where complications arise.
What is rising action?
This was Ulysses goal in The Adventures of Ulysses.
What is to go home back to Ithica?
This gives human characteristics to non-human things.
What is personification?
This is a truth about life that is revealed in a story.
This is the person or force in conflict with the protagonist.
Who is the antagonist?
This is the end of a story where a main conflict is resolved.
What is the resolution?
This character was the son of Poseidon whom Ulysses blinded.
Who was Polyphemous?
This is an extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
This is when the author interrupts the plot to tell of an earlier time.
What is flashback?
This was the protagonist in The Adventures of Ulysses.
Who was Ulysses?
These are events that follow the climax and lead to the resolution.
What is falling action?
These creatures from The Adventures of Ulysses drive sailors insane with their singing.
Who was the sirens?
This is a word that sounds like it's meaning.
What is onomatopoeia?
This is the problem in a story. It can be external or internal.
What is conflict?