Vocab List 1

Question 1

Plot

Answer 1

The series of events that make up a story; The series of events that are related to one another

Question 2

Conflict

Answer 2

The problem the main character faces

Question 3

Characters

Answer 3

People, animals, or objects in the story

Question 4

Character Traits

Answer 4

The personality of a character

Question 5

Internal Conflict

Answer 5

a character struggle that involves their emotions, brain or opposing desires

Question 6

External Conflict

Answer 6

A struggle between a character and some outer force, another character, nature or society

Question 7

Dialogue

Answer 7

The words spoken between characters/conversation

Question 8

Setting

Answer 8

Where and when a story takes place

Question 9

Theme

Answer 9

(Central idea) The big idea of a fictional text; a truth revealed about literature; expressed in one sentence

Question 10

Genre

Answer 10

Types of writing: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, etc

Question 11

Capitalism

Answer 11

Economic system in which a countries trade is controlled by private owners for profit rather than by the government

Question 12

Occlusion

Answer 12

To close up or block off