Duplicate of 7th Grade Literature Midterm

showing what led up to the event, before the story began

the central struggle in a story or drama

goal the author wants to achieve in his/her writing

main message a reader can take from a story

A Crush Genre

The sequence of events in a story, novel, or play that begins with the exposition

the relationship of the narrator or storyteller to the story

method a writer uses to develop the personality of the character is called

the outcome of a conflict in a story

the turning point in a story or drama; point of greatest emotional intensity

a literary or artistic category such as fiction or nonfiction

conversation between characters in a story

the emotional quality of a story or poem

this helps create the atmosphere or mood of the story

main character in the story

New Directions Essay

the most important idea expressed in a paragraph

in a situation, the opposite of what was expected or intended

usually over 100 pages, might take several days or weeks to read

the part of a plot in which characters, setting, etc. are introduced

If the story is told by one of the characters, referred to as "I", the story is told in

The Night the Bed Fell Genre

you can read this in a single session lasting between several minutes to an hour or two.

Genre of Strong Men Weep

Genre of Names/Nombres

events are introduced in the order in which they occur

a figure of speech that uses words "like or as" to compare unlike things

The use of clues by an author to prepare readers for events that will happen in a story

the part of the plot that adds complications to the problems in the story...

short stories that contain characters and events that are invented by the writer are