4th grade fiction vocabulary

words or phrases used to form pictures in a person’s mind

a story passed from generations that explains an event; believed by many to be true

a story

an unusual, fanciful, or unrealistic story

the POV in which the narrator tells the story based on his/her perspective; I or we

a fanciful story about fairies, magical creatures, or legendary deeds

a traditional story intended to teach a useful lesson (usually has talking animals)

the highest point of interest of excitement in the plot of a literary selection

the position or perspective from which an author tells a story

a narrative, real or imaginary, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the reader

a genre of writing based on imagination and not necessarily on facts

the person telling a story

a basic theme, lesson, or moral

a description of a character - appearance, personality, actions, thoughts, or interactions

the basic and unimaginative meaning

a literary selection that includes plot events that are puzzling until the conclusion

the important events performed by the characters in a literary selection

the opposition of persons or forces that brings about action important to the plot

words that create images (ex: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, idiom)

a question that must be solved or considered

a person, thing, or animal in a literary selection

narrator tells the story; uses words such as he, she, they, them

the sequence of actions or events in a literary selection

a traditional tale or legend passed from generation to generation

the basic and most important parts of a fiction story (ex: setting, characters, plot, theme)

the time and place of a literary (fictional) selection

a central or universal idea of a literary selection that expresses a truth about human behavior

the written construction of a story (ex: sentences, paragraphs, dialogue)

the way a character relates to another character based on dialogue and actions

a lesson that teaches about right and wrong and how people should behave

a story that attempts to explain events in nature, beliefs, or why people behave as they do

a connection or an association between two or more ideas, objects, or characters

the order in which events or actions are arranged

the characters change throughout the story

a fictional text that is based on events from the past