Story Vocabulary

Story Elements

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Read this brief passage about the movie Frozen.

Anna teams up with Kristoff and is in a race against time to find Princess Elsa and free the kingdom from a winter that may never end. Anna must endure difficult conditions and many challenges to save her kingdom.

Who is the protagonist of Frozen? _________________________________

Multiple Choice

Identify the following elements of a story.

A girl is about to win a bicycle race when she gets a flat tire.

• antagonist

• complication

• setting

Multiple Choice

An evil witch tries to capture a princess.

The witch is the ___________________.

• antagonist

• protagonist

• complication

• setting

Multiple Choice

Marie and Tommy meet when they argue over the same book at the library and eventually become best friends.

This is an example of a _____________________ of a story.

• antagonist

• plot

• complication

• setting

Multiple Choice

The school is completely empty. It is late at night. There isn’t a sound except for a quiet tapping.

This describes the _____________________ of a story.

• antagonist

• plot

• complication

• setting

Multiple Choice

A superhero must save a group of hikers.

The superhero is the ____________________ of this story.

• antagonist

• protagonist

• complication

• setting

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not a part of a setting?

• It was a dark and stormy night.

• Mary had bright blue eyes and a dazzling smile

• In a kingdom far, far away, a long time ago…

Multiple Choice

5. Who is the protagonist in this story?

• The boar

• The lion

• The vultures

Multiple Choice

Which is not a part of the plot of this story?

• a. The boar makes his way to the stream.

• b. The dessert is hot and dry.

• c. The lion and the boar fight.

Multiple Choice

What is the protagonist’s goal in this story?

• a. To get a drink of water

• b. To protect the stream

• c. To defeat the lion

Multiple Choice

How does this story end?

• a. The antagonist and the protagonist become friends.

• b. The two antagonists defeat the protagonists.

• c. The protagonists flying overhead scare the antagonists.

Multiple Choice

Which is part of the setting of this story?

• a. A cool stream in the dessert

• b. The story of two enemies who become friends

• c. The moral of the story is to be kind to one another.

Multiple Choice

What complication does the boar encounter?

• a. He is thirsty.

• b. He notices the vultures.

• c. The lion is between him and the stream.