8th Grade ELA STAAR Review - Academic Vocabulary

Front

This part of the plot introduces the characters, the setting and the basic situation.

Back

Exposition

Front

This character changes as a result of the story's events.

Back

dynamic

Front

The moment of greatest tension in the story; the turning point.

Back

climax

Front

The event or decision that begins a story's problem or conflict.

Back

inciting incident

Front

The feeling or emotion the reader gets when reading a passage.

Back

mood

Front

A hint about events that will happen later that builds suspense

Back

foreshadowing

Front

The final outcome of the story is the

Back

resolution

Front

When an author pauses the story to describe an event(s) that happened in the past.

Back

flashback

Front

The narrator is outside the story, but does not know what any of the characters are thinking. The narrator tells only what can be seen and/or heard.

Back

3rd person objective

Front

The attitude that the author has about the subject.

Back

tone