End of the Year Review :)

Story Vocab 1

100

What is the time and place of a story?

setting

200

What is the standpoint from which a story is told?

point of view

300

What is the most exciting or intense part of the story called?

climax

400

What is the anxiety a reader feels about what will happen next in the story?

suspense

500

What is the character in a story who is in conflict with the main character? (NOT villain - think about a word we learned this year)

antagonist

Story Vocab 2

100

What is the atmosphere or feeling that a reader feels while reading a text?

mood

200

What is the point of view in which the narrator is a person in the story?

first person point of view

300

What is the attitude of the writer or speaker?

tone

400

In which part of the plot diagram are the setting, characters, and basic situation revealed?

exposition

500

This is a type of figurative language that uses an exaggeration to show emphasis. 

hyperbole

Story Vocab 3

100

a type of figurative language which compares two unlike things

metaphor

200

What is the point of view in which the narrator is not in the story, but someone observing from the outside?

third person

300

What is the main character in a story called?

protagonist

400

In which part of the plot diagram do problems begin to arise?

rising action

500

What type of figurative language includes words whose sounds suggest their meaning?

onomatopoeia

Story Vocab 4

100

In a plot diagram, this is the end of the story where the main conflict is resolved.

resolution

200

In the plot diagram, what are the events that follow the climax and lead to the resolution?

falling action

300

What is the moral or life lesson revealed in a story?

theme

400

What is it called when the author interrupts the plot to recreate an event from an earlier time?

flashback

500

A type of figurative language in which non-human objects are given human characteristics. 

personification

5

100

Which type of text structure puts information in order of time?

sequence or chronological

200

Which type of text structure talks about how things are similar and different?

compare & contrast

300

Which type of text structure identifies how one thing causes another?

cause & effect

400

Which text structure identifies an issue and how to solve it?

problem & solution

500

Which text structure would this passage be?

Yesterday, I went to the store to get milk. On my way to the store, I passed a little dog running on the side of the road. I stopped and picked him up. Next, I went to the animal shelter, and let them know that I found this nice puppy. Finally, his owners came to the shelter to pick him up. 

sequence/chronological