Fiction Terms

Usually the main character; someone who changes

• antagonist

• secondary character

• narrator

• protagonist

The message from the story; the lesson learned by the character

• setting

• theme

• plot

• resolution

the person, thing, or force going against the protagonist.

• protagonist

• setting

• antagonist

• author

The time and place of a story

• setting

• resolution

• plot

• character

Aliens, Space Craft, setting is in the future.

• Fantasy

• Realistic Fiction

• Tall Tale

• Science Fiction

A type of fictional story often based around technology or inventions that do not yet exist; often set in the future and may be set in space

• nonfiction

• fantasy

• science fiction

• biography

Which type of fiction story would have a setting that takes place in the future or on a different planet?

• realistic fiction

• contemporary fiction

• science fiction

• historical fiction

An imaginative story involving scientific inventions like robots and space ships

• Humor

• Science Fiction

• Horror

The end, where all the loose ends of the story are tied up

• plot finnisher

• ending

• resolution

• climax

Turning point of the story

• resolution

• rising action

• climax

• plot