STAAR Grade 5 Reading: Literature: Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

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  1. act
    a single division of a play, opera, or ballet
  2. action
    the series of events that form a plot
  3. character
    an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction
  4. climax
    the decisive moment in a novel or play
  5. conflict
    opposition in a work of fiction between characters or forces
  6. dialogue
    the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction
  7. drama
    the literary genre of works intended for the theater
  8. fable
    a short moral story
  9. falling action
    series of plot events following the climax of a narrative
  10. first person
    narration from the point of view of the speaker or narrator
  11. folktale
    a traditional story or legend circulated by word of mouth
  12. legend
    a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
  13. myth
    a traditional story serving to explain a world view
  14. narrator
    someone who tells a story
  15. plot
    the story that is told, as in a novel, play, movie, etc.
  16. point of view
    the perspective from which a story is told
  17. prop
    an object used on the set of a play or movie
  18. resolution
    the way the main complication of a literary work is settled
  19. rising action
    a series of plot events that build up toward the climax
  20. scene
    a subdivision of an act of a play
  21. setting
    the context and environment in which something is situated
  22. speaker
    the narrative voice of a poem (as distinct from the poet)
  23. stage direction
    instruction or description written in the script of a play
  24. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  25. theme
    a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary work
  26. third person
    narration from the point of view of those being described
Created on Tue Jul 27 09:43:35 EDT 2021 (updated Tue Jul 27 11:22:45 EDT 2021)

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