Miscellaneous Vocabulary
What is the main character of a story called?
What is the protagonist?
What does theme mean?
What is a moral or lesson?
The sun smiled down on me.
What is personification and alliteration?
What is the beginning of the story called where we learn the character's names and setting?
What is the exposition?
When the narration is _____ person, the readers learn the feeling of the main character.
What is first person?
What is the name of the character that opposes the main character in a story, often referred to as the "villain"?
What is the antagonist?
What is the theme of the following story?
Once there was a young boy and an old man. The young boy laughed at the tired old man. Then, the young boy needed to interview a veteran for a school project. The boy felt bad about laughing earlier.
What is "Respect your elders"?
Buzz, hiss, boom, bang.
What is onomatopoeia?
What is the part of the plot where the central problem that needs to be resolved is revealed?
What is the conflict?
_____ person narrators use the pronouns you, your, and yours.
What is second person?
What does the word "defend" mean?
What is protect?
What is a theme from your favorite movie?
Answers will vary.
Once in a blue moon, I go to Domino's.
What is an idiom?
What is are the events leading up to the climax called?
What is the rising action?
______ person narrators tell the story through their own eyes.
What is first person?
Adding this suffix to the end of the word makes it an adverb.
What is -ly?
What is a theme from a story we have read this year (anything besides Number the Stars)?
Answers will vary.
My birthday is a million days away.
What is hyperbole?
What is the big event or turning point in a story called?
What is climax?
In ________ point of view, the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters.
What is third person omniscient?
What does the word "brutal" mean?
What is cruel?
What is a theme of "Number the Stars"?
What is doing the right thing can require great bravery?
I hear the buzz of insects in the trees.
What is onomatopoeia and imagery?
What is the portion of the story after the climax called?
What is the falling action?
In _______ point of view, the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of one character at a time.
What is third person limited?