Final Exam Vocabulary

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

• characters

• conflict

• setting

• mood

The narrator is a character in the story

• character

• tone

• first-person point of view

• theme

The narrator is NOT a character in the story

• climax

• third-person point of view

• tone

• first-person point of view

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

• theme

• conflict

• mood

• topic

The time and place of the action in the story

• theme

• resolution

• plot

• setting

The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the READER

• climax

• plot

• mood

• character

The WRITER'S attitude toward his or her subject

• topic

• setting

• plot

• tone

The series of events in a story

• plot

• exposition

• theme

• setting

One or two words that sum up what a story is about

• setting

• mood

• topic

• first-person point of view

The message about life or human nature that the writer share with the reader; a lesson

• theme

• tone

• climax

• setting