| A | B |
|---|
| plot | the series of events in a story |
| conflict | problem a character faces |
| setting | time and place of a story |
| foreshadowing | hint about what might happen later |
| text features | things that help reader find important information |
| inferences | conclusions made based on clues in story |
| chronological order | sequence in which events happen |
| author's purpose | writer's reason for writing something |
| exposition | introduces setting,characters and hint of conflict |
| rising action | shows how conflict develops |
| climax | turning point of story |
| falling action | tension in story eases |
| resolution | point in story telling how things turn out |
| suspense | feeling of growing tension and excitement |
| compare | identify how things are similar |
| contrast | identify how things are different |
| first-person point of view | narrator is a character in the story |
| third-person point of view | narrator is NOT character in story |
| characterization | ways author develops character's personality |
| symbol | something that stands for something else |
| context clues | words that help define an unknown word |
