7th Grade Fiction Unit 1: Pretest

Sequence of events in a story

• conflict
• setting
• plot

A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action

• static character
• author's purpose
• dynamic character

End of the story where loose ends are tied up

• exposition
• plot
• resolution

The time and place of a story

• character
• setting
• plot

life lesson, moral, or lesson the author wants the reader to learn

• central idea
• plot
• theme

the problem in the story

• resolution
• plot
• conflict

A character that does not change from the beginning of the story to the end

• static character
• tone
• dynamic character

The high point of the story.

• exposition
• resolution
• climax

The character who drives the action--the character whose fate matters most. I

• antagonist
• protagonist
• dynamic character

the character in a story who keeps the main character from getting what he wants.

• antagonist
• protagonist
• static character