MCAS vocabulary Flashcards
Exposition
Background history of main character.
Setting
Place and time.
Conflict
The problem in a story.
Internal Conflict
Physiological struggle.
External Conflict
A type of conflict that places characters at odds with forces outside themselves.
Rising Action
The section of a story that leads toward its climax.
Turning Point
A point as in an action or situation where an important change occurs.
Falling Action
Everything that takes place immediately after the climax
Protagonist
The character who drives the action–the character whose fate matters most.
Antagonist
In conventional narratives, the antagonist is synonymous with the “bad guy,”
Climax
The most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex.
Tone
The attitude that a character or narrator or author takes towards a given subject.
Theme
The main subject that is being discussed or described in a piece of writing, a movie, etc.
Mood
An emotional state of mind or feeling.
Authors Purpose
His/her reason for or intent in writing.
Entertain
To hold the attention of pleasantly or agreeably; divert; amuse.
Persuade
To move by argument, entreaty, or expostulation to a belief, position, or course of action.
Inform
To officially tell someone something, or to give them information about something.
Noun
Person, place, or thing.
Verb
A physical action, mental action, or a state of being.
Adjective
Modifies or describes a noun or pronoun.
Adverb
A word that modifies, a verb, an adjective.
Pronoun
Use to refer to someone or something when you do not need to use a noun.
Conjunction
Used to connect words, phrases and clauses.
Preposition
A word or group of words used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships, or to introduce an object.
Interjection
A word or phrase that is grammatically independent from the words around it, and mainly expresses feeling rather than meaning.
