6th grade vocab

Question 1

Setting

Answer 1

Where or when a story takes place.

Question 2

Protagonist

Answer 2

The leading character in a novel.

Question 3

Antagonist

Answer 3

The opposing force that brings conflict to the protagonist.

Question 4

Complications

Answer 4

The struggle between opposing forces. This drives the story.

Question 5

Plot

Answer 5

The event, exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution.

Question 6

Exposition

Answer 6

Characters, setting, and basic situation are revealed.

Question 7

Inciting Incident

Answer 7

The event that sets the story in motion.

Question 8

Rising Action

Answer 8

The main part of the story.

Question 9

Climax

Answer 9

The most exciting part of the story.

Question 10

Falling Action

Answer 10

The conflict begins moving towards the resolution.

Question 11

Resolution

Answer 11

The end of the story.

Question 12

foreshadowing

Answer 12

Hints or clues that won’t make sense until later in the story.

Question 13

cliffhanger

Answer 13

When the story ends at a exciting moment.

Question 14

suspense

Answer 14

Anxiety

Question 15

flashback

Answer 15

When the character remembers something from the past.

Question 16

Malicious

Answer 16

Desiring harm to someone or something else.

Question 17

Malignant

Answer 17

Bad or harmful, producing death.

Question 18

Malaria

Answer 18

Illness believe to be spread by bad air, actually spread by mosquitoes.

Question 19

Malpractice

Answer 19

Performing one’s duty in a bad or wrong way.

Question 20

Malodorous

Answer 20

Bad-smelling.

Question 21

Malefactor

Answer 21

One who does wrong; villain.

Question 22

Malevolent

Answer 22

Having bad feeling toward someone or something, hated, sprite.

Question 23

Malediction

Answer 23

A bad speech; a curse.

Question 24

malady

Answer 24

A bad health condition; a disease.

Question 25

Malapropism

Answer 25

A word used the wrong way; usually with humorous results.