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Reading Vocab. 4th
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Fiction | Not real |
| Plot | The actions or events in a story, book, movie or play |
| Climax | The turning point of a story |
| Rising action | Introduction of the problem or conflict |
| Falling action | Leads towards problem being solved (fixed) |
| Exposition (beginning or introduction) | Establishes setting and introduces characters |
| Resolution | Conflict is solved. End of the story. |
| Verse | One line of a poem |
| Stanza | lines in a poem grouped together in a poem like a paragraph |
| Rhythm | The beat of the poem |
| Meter | A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem |
| Line break | Where the line of text ends in a poem |
| Rhyme | Words that have the same ending sounds in a poem often found at the ends of the lines |