Vocabulary
Literary Terms
Parts of a Story
Name that Story
Terms
100
What vocabulary word means to plan or plot in a deceitful way.
What is scheme
100
A form of a language that is spoken in a particular area and that uses some of its own words, grammar, and pronunciations.
What is Dialect
100
The point of the highest action or tension in a story.
What is Climax
100
In this story the main character is a mongoose.
What is Rikki Tikki Tavi
100
The character fighting against the protagonist, often know as the villain.
What is the antagonist.
200
What vocabulary words means to frown or have a unpleasant expression on your face.
What is scowl
200
A character that does not change throughout the story is know as a....
What is a Static Character.
200
The part of the story when the conflict is developing and events build toward the climax.
What is Rising Action
200
In this story a painter lady from New York goes into a neighborhood to paint a Wall of Respect.
What is War of the Wall
200
Character involved in the central conflict of the story, often known as the hero.
What is Protagonist
300
What vocabulary word means a state of freedom.
What is liberation
300
A character that does change over the course of a story is know as a...
What is a Dynamic Character
300
Part of the story that follows the climax and shows the result of the important action that happened at the climax.
What is Falling Action
300
A boy named Victor has a crush on a girl named Teresa and he pretends to speak French to get her attention.
What is Seventh Grade
300
The method of narration used and how the story is told.
What is Point of View
400
What vocabulary words means to crouch down in fear.
What is cower
400
What literary term means to make an educated guess.
What is to make a prediction.
400
Beginning of the story that explains the setting and the important characters are introduced.
What is Exposition
400
While reading this study we talked about dialect and how Mama spoke in a country accent.
What is War of the Wall
400
Struggle between opposing forces in a story.
What is Conflict
500
What vocabulary word means a person or thing providing comfort to somebody who is sad or is suffering.
What is consolation.
500
A relationship between actions or events such that one or more are the result of the other or others.
What is Cause and Effect.
500
The part of the story when all questions are solved.
What is Resolution
500
While reading this story we stopped to make predictions about what would happen next to the boy Teddy and his family.
What is Rikki Tikki Tavi
500
The underlying message about life or human nature that a writer wants the reader to understand.
What is Theme
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