Vocabulary Word List 2 (8th Grade)

to give or supply for a common purpose

• contribute

• immigrate

• reaction

• relocate

to enter and settle in a new country

• contribute

• immigrate

• reaction

• relocate

a response to something

• contribute

• immigrate

• reaction

• relocate

to move to a new place

• contribute

• immigrate

• reaction

• relocate

changing attitudes, judgments, or emphases

• shifting

• summary

• plot

• exposition

A brief retelling of the most important events in a story's plot

• shifting

• summary

• plot

• exposition

a series of events that form the story in a novel, movie, etc.

• shifting

• summary

• plot

• exposition

the first stage of the plot in which the characters setting, and conflict are introduced

• shifting

• summary

• plot

• exposition

the second stage of the plot in which the characters take steps to solve the problem even while complications might be introduced

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

• resolution

the third stage of the plot - the point of the greatest tension in the story in which the conflict begins to be resolved

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

• resolution