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Fiction vocabulary
Fiction words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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). |