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Fiction vocabulary
Fiction words
Term | Definition |
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fantasy | Made up fiction that could not happen in real life |
realistic | Made up fiction that could happen in real life |
message | What the author wants to teach you |
theme | The BIG idea or lesson |
character | The people or animals that move the plot. |
climax | The most exciting part of the story. |
conflict | The problem of the story. |
setting | The time and place of a story. |
falling action | The problem is getting fixed. Events leading to solution. |
plot | A series of events in a story. |
relationship | The connection between people or ideas. |
resolution | The end of the story that reveals the solution to the problem (conflict). |
rising action | The part of a story that builds interest and suspense. |
conversation | Communication between 2 or more people |
events | What happens in a story. |
narrator | Someone who tells the story. |
selection | A passage selected from a longer text. |
first person point-of-view | The story is told by one character, speaking about himself/herself. |
third person point-of-view | The story is told by someone outside the story (narrator). |