Reading Terms

supported and encouraged; kept afloat

• Determined

• Confident

• Rising Action

• Buoyed

Match the following:

• a story written to be performed by actors; a play

• Drama

• writing used to convince the reader of the writer's opinion

• Historical Fiction

• the story of a person's life written by that person in 1st person POV

• Procedural

• fictional story of an event in history with historical facts, events, or people

• Persuasive

• writing that tells you how to do something

• Autobiography

An ASSERTION is ___________ .

• the way words are used; author's word choice

• the perspective from which the narrator tells a story

• the truth; a fact or statement the writer makes.

• a struggle between two opposing forces

Diction

• a feeling or attitude expressed by the author

• a person who is against something or someone

• the main character in a story

• the words an author chooses to use in his or her writing

Detail

• when two characters are talking to one another

• a particular fact or piece of information provided in a story

• the absence of words

• a summary of a story

Point of view can be

• the perspective from which a narrator tells her story

• 1st person

• 3rd person omniscient

• all of the above

Conflict in a story is ______________ .

• between two opposing forces in a story

• the ending of a story

• sometimes man vs man, or man vs nature

• Choices one (1) and three (3) are correct

A PROTAGONIST is _______________________ .

• the opposing force against the main character

• a person who is mentioned a few times during the story but really doesn't add much to the story

• the main character in a story

• a character who never has any problems

The antagonist

• a person who is against someone or something

• a person who has a positive attitude

• a person who helps the main character with his problems

• the way you would describe your favorite food

How does an author use CHARACTERIZATION

• in a character's description

• through a character's words

• through a character's actions

• All of the above are correct