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Elements of Fiction
Fiction Terms 7th grade
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Narrator | The person telling the story. |
| Resolution | Happens at the end of the story. It is the part when the final outcome happens. |
| Character | The person or animal that takes part in a story. |
| Setting | The time, place, and duration of the story. |
| Plot | A series of events that make up the beginning, middle , and end of the story. |
| Conflict | The problem in the story. |
| Internal Conflict | The character has problems with feelings inside his own mind or thoughts. |
| Theme | The lesson or message about life that the author is trying to teach the reader. |
| External Conflict | The character has problems with another character or some outside force. |
| Character Traits | The author's description of a character, based on how the character looks, speaks, acts, and thinks. |
| Fiction | A story that is made up or not true. |
| Title | The name of a piece of literature. |
| Author | The person who writes a piece of literature. |
| Point of View | The perspective from which a story is told. |
| First Person Point of View | When the narrator is a character in the story and uses pronouns like I, me, my. |
| Third Person Point of View | When the narrator is NOT in the story and uses pronouns like he, she, it, they. |
| Protagonist | The main character in a story. |
| Antagonist | The character who is against the protagonist. |
| Rising Action | Events that increase or raise the tension and lead toward the climax. |
| Climax | The most exciting part of the story, the turning point in the story. |
| Falling Action | Events that follow the climax. |
| Exposition | The beginning of the story when characters and setting are introduced. |
| Initiating Event | Event that happens at the beginning of the story that introduces the conflict. |
| Third person limited | Point of view where one character's thoughts and feelings are revealed. |
| Third person omniscient | Point of view where all the characters' thoughts and feelings are revealed. |
| Foreshadowing | Giving a hint that something is going to happen later in the story. |
| Symbolism | When an idea, feeling, emotion, or other concept is represented by something else. |
| Irony | Create an outcome that is opposite from what is expected. |
| Flashback | An interruption in the present of a vivid memory from the past. |