Narrative Final Practice

The author's attitude toward the subject

• tone

• point of view

• 1st person point of view

• falling action

Atmosphere; feeling created in the reader by a literary work

• mood

• hyperbole

• Rising Action/Complications

• metaphor

Sequence of events in a story: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution

• plot

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

• figurative language

The beginning of the story; introduces characters and setting

• exposition

• infer

• onomatopoeia

• science fiction

The events that build a story towards the climax; usually introduced

• Rising Action/Complications

• plot

• fantasy

• external conflict

Most exciting moment of the story; turning point

• Climax

• personification

• Allusion

• dynamic character

Events after the climax, leading to the resolution

• falling action

• quote

• tone

• figurative language

End of the story where loose ends are tied up

• Resolution

• Protagonist

• internal conflict (man vs. self)

• Know how to punctuate a parenthetical citation

When a character is challenging his/her own beliefs or emotions

• internal conflict (man vs. self)

• onomatopoeia

• theme

• exposition

A struggle between a character and an outside force

• external conflict

• fantasy

• author's purpose

• flat character