Elements of Fiction
Vocabulary
Elements of an Open Response
Vocabulary
Elements of Plot
100
Where or when the story takes place.
What is setting?
100
To cause to regain consciousness.
What is revive?
100
The sentence that includes the claim or thesis for the open response.
What is the topic sentence?
100
Having or showing courage.
What is valiant?
100
The turning point of the story.
What is the climax?
200
The message of the story.
What is the theme?
200
Characterized by kindness and warm courtesy.
What is gracious?
200
The argument that the open response author is trying to support in his/her open response.
What is the thesis or claim?
200
Expressing sorrow.
What is mournful?
200
When the setting, characters, and conflict are introduced.
What is the exposition?
300
The dramatic struggle between two forces in a story, or the main problem.
What is conflict?
300
A person's or animal's manner of walking.
What is gait?
300
The final sentence, which should leave the reader thinking about the topic.
What is the clincher?
300
To fall or drop suddenly.
What is plunge?
300
When the story comes to a reasonable ending and we see how the characters have changed.
What is the resolution?
400
The arrangement of events in a story.
What is the plot?
400
To crouch or curl up, usually in fear.
What is cower?
400
Words or phrases used to move from one thought or idea to the next.
What are transitions?
400
A notable or unusual sight.
What is a spectacle?
400
When loose ends in the story are being tied up and the conflict and climax are taken care of.
What is the falling action?
500
The perspective from which the story is told.
What is point of view?
500
To an exceedingly great extent or degree.
What is immensely?
500
Words that provide additional information or background information about quotes or mention where the quote came from in the story.
What is context?
500
A favorite saying of an individual, group, or institution.
What is a motto?
500
The part of the story when the conflict becomes more complicated and suspense builds.
What is the rising action?
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