Academic Vocabulary

The main character in a literary work

The perspective from which a story is told

A specific piece of information that supports a claim and is accurately quoted from a text

The series of conflicts and crisis in the story that leads to the climax

An individual's physical characteristics, such as hair color, height, weight, etc.

Events after the climax, leading to the resolution

Clearly Stated

End of the story where loose ends are tied up

The narrator knows all the thoughts, actions, and feelings of all characters

The qualities that make up a character's personality

To make understandable, plain, or clear

Rarely used but uses "you" and "your" to suggest the reader is part of the story

Use of sights, sounds, tastes, smells, and textures to convey meaning

Briefly retelling in your own words the main ideas and most important details

The way a writer reveals the personality of a character

Narrator describes characters actions with no knowledge of the character's thoughts or feelings

Add notes or comments to a text

To state again or in a new way

To show how two things are different

Narrator is the main character in the story who tells the events as he or she experienced it.

A community or society that looks perfect, but is actually a terrible place to live

Educated guess or a guess based on what you know and the details of what you read or see

Implied; understood but not stated

The narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character

Beginning of the story; contains characters, setting, and basic information

A spoken or written account of connect events; a story

To show how two things are similar

A character or force in conflict with the main character

Most exiting moment of the story; turning point

To quote a passage from a book or article as evidence in your writing

The problem in the story

An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect