Narrative+Unit+Vocabulary


 * __ narrative: __**// A fictional story //


 * __ setting: __**// where and when a story takes place //


 * __ characters: __** //the people and/or animals that “star” in a story//


 * __ characterization: __** //the personality or portrayal of a character//


 * __ dynamic character: __** //character’s personality or maturity does change.//


 * __ static character: __** //character’s personality or maturity does NOT change//


 * __ plot: __**// the events that happen in the story, from beginning to end //


 * __ conflict: __** //a problem that the main character must try to resolve//


 * __ exposition: __**// beginning of the story; introduces the characters and conflict //


 * __ rising action: __**// the series of events leading up to the climax //


 * __ falling action: __**// the series of events after the climax //


 * __ climax: __** //the turning point of the story’s main conflict//


 * __ resolution: __**// the end of the story; tells the solution to the conflict //


 * __ theme: __**// the central and controlling idea of a story. //


 * __ moral: __**// the message or lesson of a story; what the main character learns in the end //


 * __ dialogue: __**// A conversation between two or persons (put in quotation marks) //


 * __ allusion: __**// a reference to a famous story. //


 * __ sensory details: __**// Descriptive words that trigger at least one of the 5 senses //