Coach Workbook Lesson 1-8 Vocabulary

Question 1

Literary work produced from a writer’s imagination

Answer 1

Fiction

Question 2

Category, or type, of literature

Answer 2

Genre

Question 3

A narrative set in modern times

Answer 3

Contemporary Fiction

Question 4

A narrative set in the past that gives a fictional account of historical figures or events

Answer 4

Historical Fiction

Question 5

A long narrative, usually divided into chapters

Answer 5

Novel

Question 6

A short narrative with a plot and characters

Answer 6

Short story

Question 7

A short story with a moral or lesson; often has animal characters

Answer 7

Fable

Question 8

A traditional story that tells about a culture’s heroes, ancestors, or gods; may explain how the natural world was created or how it works

Answer 8

Myth

Question 9

Literary work intended to be performed by actors for an audience

Answer 9

Drama

Question 10

Means “one who crafts plays”

Answer 10

Playwright

Question 11

Is a major division of a play

Answer 11

Act

Question 12

Subdivision of an act with a fixed setting and continuous time frame

Answer 12

Scene

Question 13

The words spoken by characters to each other

Answer 13

Dialogue

Question 14

Speech delivered by one character while he or she is alone onstage

Answer 14

Soliloquy

Question 15

Tell actors what to do

Answer 15

Stage directions

Question 16

Literature written in verse, or in short lines

Answer 16

Poetry

Question 17

Groups of lines within a poem

Answer 17

Stanzas

Question 18

Repetition of sounds at the ends of lines

Answer 18

Rhyme

Question 19

Musical quality

Answer 19

Rhythm

Question 20

Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

Answer 20

Meter

Question 21

Repetition of constant sounds at the beginning of words

Answer 21

Alliteration

Question 22

Fourteen-line poem with a precise rhyme scheme and meter

Answer 22

Sonnet

Question 23

Sequence of events, or what happens, in a work of fiction or a drama

Answer 23

Plot

Question 24

Beginning of the story, when the setting and characters are established

Answer 24

Exposition

Question 25

Problem that a character must resolve

Answer 25

Conflict

Question 26

Bulk of the story, during which the character works to resolve the problem

Answer 26

Rising action

Question 27

Turning point, usually the most exciting part

Answer 27

Climax

Question 28

Events after the climax, leading to the solving of the problem

Answer 28

Falling action

Question 29

Ending of the story, when the conflict has been resolved

Answer 29

Resolution

Question 30

Where and when a story takes place

Answer 30

Setting

Question 31

Person, animal, or other creature in a fictional text

Answer 31

Character

Question 32

Qualities that define them

Answer 32

Traits

Question 33

Reason why characters act the way they do

Answer 33

Motivation

Question 34

Perspective of a character or narrator

Answer 34

Point of view

Question 35

Literary text is its central message or lesson

Answer 35

Theme

Question 36

Short restatement of a text in your own words

Answer 36

Summary

Question 37

Use of words to create an image in the reader’s mind

Answer 37

Figurative Language

Question 38

An author’s attitude toward his or her subject

Answer 38

Tone

Question 39

Indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, or object in history or a literary work

Answer 39

Allusion

Question 40

Direct comparison of two unlike things, using the word “like” or “as”

Answer 40

Simile

Question 41

Comparison of two unlike things, without using the word “like” or “as”

Answer 41

Metaphor

Question 42

Language that appeals to the five senses (sight, sound, touch, taste, smell)

Answer 42

Imagery

Question 43

Giving an animal, object, or abstract idea human qualities

Answer 43

Personification

Question 44

Educated guess based on information and evidence in a text

Answer 44

Inference