Reading Terms

True or false: Setting can influence the plot of a novel or short story.

• True

• False

Universal message the story conveys in a novel or short story.

• Theme

• Main idea

• Exposition

• Author's  purpose

A struggle or problem in a story that the main character encounters.

• Resolution

• Conflict

• Exposition

• Climax

Which set of words are terms related to reading?

• figurative language, formal tone, context clues, connotation

• parallel structure, phrases, clauses, semicolon, colon, spell

• argument, information, narrative, cite, textual evidence

• inference, theme, central idea, author, point of view, complex character

True or false? Lesson, moral, and message are synonyms of theme.

• true

• false

Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader

• Conflict

• Mood

• Plot

• Metaphor

Events after the climax, leading to the resolution

• Rising Action

• Exposition

• Falling Action

• Conflict

A series of events that builds from the conflict. It begins with the inciting force and ends with the climax.

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

• Conflict

• Resolution

A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances.

• Conflict

• Exposition

• Resolution

• Setting

The conflict of a story where a character struggles with something INSIDE themselves.

• External Conflict

• Tone

• Internal Conflict

• Mood