Chapter 8 /Plot Development/Character Types-Vocabulary Quiz

Chapter 8 /Plot Development/Character Types Vocabulary

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Multiple Choice

_________________ is the way events work together to create excitement in a story.

• Drama

• Resolution

• Round

• Climax

Multiple Choice

This is called the peak of a plot pyramid. It's the most exciting moment of a story, where both people and events change.

• Resolution

• Drama

• Falling Action

• Climax

Multiple Choice

Classic plots are stories that have the same basic sequence of events and appear in many stories throughout history. Classic plots can come from

• Myths from around the world

• Traditional Stories

• Religious Works

  From Sacred Texts

• Hardboiled Novels, Adventures, and Romances

• All of the above

Multiple Select

An author composes a plot piece by piece with stanzas in a story, but scenes in a poem,

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What do we call any actor in a story?

• Actor

• Player

• Character

• Human

Multiple Select

The resolution occurs in the beginning of the story, sets the scene and explains what's going on

• True

• False

Multiple Select

This part of the plot includes the drama and is a series of events which lead to the climax. This part of the plot diagram is called the rising action.

• True

• False

Multiple Select

The five elements of a plot are

• Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution

• Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling action, Solution

• Exposition, Drama, Rising Action, Climax, Resolution

• Resolution, Drama, Climax, Exposition, Rising Action

Multiple Choice

In this part of the story, all of the tension of the plot is resolved.

• Exposition

• Falling Action

• Resolution

• Drama

Multiple Select

When you create a sereies of drawings that represent a plot. It is called _______

• mythological version

• traditional stories

• falling action

• storyboarding

Multiple Choice

A simile for conversation would be

• climax

• dialogue

• questioning

• element

Multiple Choice

Language that tells the readers how things are, look, sound, or feel is __________.

• Definition

• Description

• Climax

• Exposition

Multiple Select

Can a character's laziness change the plot of the story?

• yes

• no

Multiple Choice

In the story Joey and Dad start to cut up when he was surprising them with the green pine tree air freshner, and Mr. Watson says, "It's the pinnacle of Western Civilization," and Joey says, " It's the pea knuckle of Western Civilization!' What does the pinnacle mean?

• A smelly green tree

• The highest point of something

• Pea Knuckle

• A surprise

Multiple Choice

When Kenny talks to dad about him growing a mustache, dad tells Kenny that he has seniority over him in the bathroom. What does the word seniority mean?

• His mustache is bigger than his.

• He's old enough to start shaving

• He's older than him

• He has a higher position than him.

Multiple Choice

And I can tell by that intelligent look on your faced, Mrs. Watson, that you have grasped that that speaker is not placed in the rear deck haphazardly. What do the underlined words mean?

• comprehend, understand ; random, disorganized

• intelligent,misunderstanding; sloppy,out of control

• comprehend, misunderstanding; selective,arranged

• noticed, change; afraid, angry

Multiple Select

Can something as small as a single sentence affect the course of a whole plot?

• no

• yes

Multiple Select

Select the 2 answers that make this question accurate.

The things a character does reveals what?

• What he/she thinks

• What he/she has for breakfast.

• What he/she does

• How he/she feels

Multiple Select

We never learn more about a character based on their reactions to another character.

• True

• False

Multiple Select

The antagonist doesn't come into conflict with the protagonist of a story.

• True

• False

Multiple Select

When the plot changes, we discover how a character reacts.

• True

• False

Chapter 8 /Plot Development/Character Types