MCAS vocabulary

Question 1

Exposition

Answer 1

Background history of main character.

Question 2

Setting

Answer 2

Place and time.

Question 3

Conflict

Answer 3

The problem in a story.

Question 4

Internal Conflict

Answer 4

Physiological struggle.

Question 5

External Conflict

Answer 5

A type of conflict that places characters at odds with forces outside themselves.

Question 6

Rising Action

Answer 6

The section of a story that leads toward its climax.

Question 7

Turning Point

Answer 7

A point as in an action or situation where an important change occurs.

Question 8

Falling Action

Answer 8

Everything that takes place immediately after the climax

Question 9

Protagonist

Answer 9

The character who drives the action–the character whose fate matters most.

Question 10

Antagonist

Answer 10

In conventional narratives, the antagonist is synonymous with the “bad guy,”

Question 11

Climax

Answer 11

The most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex.

Question 12

Tone

Answer 12

The attitude that a character or narrator or author takes towards a given subject.

Question 13

Theme

Answer 13

The main subject that is being discussed or described in a piece of writing, a movie, etc.

Question 14

Mood

Answer 14

An emotional state of mind or feeling.

Question 15

Authors Purpose

Answer 15

His/her reason for or intent in writing.

Question 16

Entertain

Answer 16

To hold the attention of pleasantly or agreeably; divert; amuse.

Question 17

Persuade

Answer 17

To move by argument, entreaty, or expostulation to a belief, position, or course of action.

Question 18

Inform

Answer 18

To officially tell someone something, or to give them information about something.

Question 19

Noun

Answer 19

Person, place, or thing.

Question 20

Verb

Answer 20

A physical action, mental action, or a state of being.

Question 21

Adjective

Answer 21

Modifies or describes a noun or pronoun.

Question 22

Adverb

Answer 22

A word that modifies, a verb, an adjective.

Question 23

Pronoun

Answer 23

Use to refer to someone or something when you do not need to use a noun.

Question 24

Conjunction

Answer 24

Used to connect words, phrases and clauses.

Question 25

Preposition

Answer 25

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.

Question 26

Interjection

Answer 26

A word or phrase that is grammatically independent from the words around it, and mainly expresses feeling rather than meaning.