Language Arts Terms

The people in a story that support the main character, but are not the center of the story.

The struggle between the character and an outside force that creates drama in the story.

Hints the author gives to help you define a difficult or unusual word in the text.

A story w/ a fully developed theme but is much shorter in length & less elaborate than a book.

The main problem in a story; the driving force behind the plot.

The events that make-up a story as they relate to each other in a sequence.

The struggle a character feels within themselves or in their mind.

The relationship in which one event makes another event happen.

Establishes the time, place and mood of the events in the story.

The person in a story who generates the action of the story, the person the story is about.