Name
Date
Choose a literary term from the word bank below and write it next to its correct definition. Each
word will be used only once.
character
third person
internal conflict
conflict
fiction
characterization
external conflict
rising action
point of view
setting
climax
exposition
falling action
resolution
first person
plot
short story
1.
PLOT
all the events which make up the story
2.
EXPOSITION
3.
SETTING
part of PLOT, beginning of story where character and setting
are revealed
time and place for the action of the story
4.
CHARACTER
person in the story
5.
CHARACTERIZATION
creation of characters using any of 6 methods
6.
POINT OF VIEW
perspective from which a story is told
7.
1ST PERSON
story is told by a character within the action (I, me, my)
8.
3RD PERSON
story is told by someone outside the action (he, she)
9.
RISING ACTION
10.
CONFLICT
part of PLOT, series of events leading up to the climax, driven
by conflict
main problems or struggles in a story, drives the rising action
11.
INTERNAL CONFLICT
struggle within the heart or mind of the character
12.
EXTERNAL CONFLICT
clash of outside forces
13.
FICTION
14.
SHORT STORY
15.
CLIMAX
16.
FALLING ACTION
17.
RESOLUTION
writing about people and events that are the product of an
author’s imagination
a work of fiction, intended to be read at one sitting, which
produces a single major effect
part of PLOT, the most intense and exciting part of a story, the
conflict has reached its peak
part of PLOT, events following the climax where the tension
releases and the story begins to close
part of PLOT, ending of a story where loose ends are tied up