the perspective of a story from a character in the story, marked by the pronoun "I".
What is first person point-of-view?
100
The most important part of a story, the highest peak of action or the turning point
What is climax?
100
A statement that can be proven.
What is a fact?
100
What is what a paragraph or selection is mainly about?
What is the main idea?
200
The events of a story.
What is plot?
200
Word choice or the order in which the words are arranged
What is diction?
200
The part of a story during which the plot become more complex.
What is rising action.
200
A statement that tells what someone thinks, feels, or believes and cannot be proven
What is an opinion?
200
What answers the questions who, what, where, when, why, and how?
What is a supporting detail?
300
Where and when a story takes place
What is setting?
300
The act of giving inanimate objects human characteristics.
What is personifcation?
300
The part of a story when the main action dies down.
What is falling action?
300
The message the author is trying to convey—usually stated in one sentence.
What is theme?
300
Putting a sentence or idea in your own words
What is paraphrase?
400
A comparison using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
400
The main character in a story around whom the action revolves
What is the protagonist?
400
The ending of a story. (NOT CONCLUSION)
What is resolution?
400
Briefly restates what the whole story is about by focusing on the most important events from the beginning, middle, and end of the selection or paragraph — usually stated in
three or four sentences
What is summary?
400
An educated guess about unstated ideas in a passage.
What is an inference?
500
A comparison of two dissimilar objects or things.
What is metaphor?
500
The person or thing against or in opposition to the protagonist.
What is the antagonist?
500
The beginning of a story where the characters are established and the setting is introduced.
What is exposition?
500
The author's or character's attitude.
What is tone?
500
Words and sentences that help determine the meaning of unknown words, figurative language, multiple-meaning words, and
analogies.