Midterm Assessment Vocabulary

The people, animals, or imaginary creatures that take part in the action of a piece of literature

• characters

• conflict

• setting

• mood

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

The narrator is a character in the story

• character

• tone

• first-person point of view

• theme

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

The narrator is NOT a character in the story

• climax

• third-person point of view

• tone

• first-person point of view

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

The struggle, or problem, a character faces in the story

• theme

• conflict

• mood

• topic

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

The time and place of the action in the story

• theme

• resolution

• plot

• setting

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the READER

• climax

• plot

• mood

• character

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

The WRITER'S attitude toward his or her subject

• topic

• setting

• plot

• tone

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

The series of events in a story

• plot

• exposition

• theme

• setting

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

The first stage of a story's plot that introduces the setting and characters and sets up, or hints at, the conflict

• climax

• exposition

• falling action

• theme

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

The stage of plot that builds tension and suspense as the conflict becomes more difficult

• resolution

• setting

• topic

• rising action

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5