STAAR Grade 6 Reading: Literature, List 1

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  1. character
    an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction
  2. climax
    the decisive moment in a novel or play
  3. conflict
    opposition in a work of fiction between characters or forces
  4. falling action
    series of plot events following the climax of a narrative
  5. first person
    narration from the point of view of the speaker or narrator
  6. flashback
    a transition in a story to an earlier event or scene
  7. limited
    subject to restrictions or constraints
  8. narrator
    someone who tells a story
  9. omniscient
    knowing, seeing, or understanding everything
  10. plot
    the story that is told, as in a novel, play, movie, etc.
  11. point of view
    the perspective from which a story is told
  12. resolution
    the way the main complication of a literary work is settled
  13. rising action
    a series of plot events that build up toward the climax
  14. setting
    the context and environment in which something is situated
  15. structure
    the complex composition of knowledge as elements
  16. third person
    narration from the point of view of those being described
Created on Fri Aug 13 10:50:36 EDT 2021 (updated Tue Aug 17 13:24:20 EDT 2021)

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