Short Story Elements Diagnostic Quiz

Short Story Elements Diagnostic Quiz

Multiple Choice

The ________ is the place where the story takes place.

• Characters

• Setting

• Conflict

• Environment

Multiple Choice

A setting can include:

• Places (cities, countries etc)

• The time period, temporal (1980s, afternoon, midnight)

• A specific place, physical (classroom)

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

The people (or animals, things, etc. presented as people) appearing in a literary work are called:

• Characters

• Robots

• Fiction

• People

Multiple Choice

A protagonist is the ______

• character causing conflict

• main character

Multiple Choice

An antagonist is the

• character causing the conflict

• lead character

Multiple Choice

Thanos is a(n) ______

• antagonist

• protagonist

Multiple Choice

The Avengers are _________.

• antagonists

• protagonists

Multiple Choice

______________ are words that describe characters' personality or qualities that make them who they are.

• Describing words

• Setting

• Mood

• Character traits

Multiple Choice

The _____ is the order of events in a story.

• venn diagram

• plot

• climax

• conflict

Multiple Choice

The _________ sets the scene for the story and introduces the reader to the characters and setting. We may also learn the conflict.

• Introduction

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Inciting Incident

Multiple Choice

The ________ is an event that gets the story started and makes the readers want to to continue reading. It starts the conflict.

• rising action

• falling action

• climax

• Inciting incident

Multiple Choice

________ is a series of events that eventually build up to the climax. Characters and conflict are further developed and events get more complicated.

• Conclusion

• Falling action

• Rising action

• Introduction

Multiple Choice

The _____ is the most exciting part of the story / the turning point with the highest level of interest and emotion.

• conclusion

• climax

• setting

• rising action

Multiple Choice

________ is when the events and conflict begin to be resolved and loose ends start to be tied up.

• Falling action

• Rising action

• Conflict

• Climax

Multiple Choice

The end of the story is known as the _________. It can be happy, sad, surprising or sometimes it's a cliff-hanger!

• conclusion

• setting

• inciting incident

• introduction

Multiple Choice

________ is the dramatic struggle between two forces in a story.

• Hate

• Conflict

• Issues

• Resolution

Multiple Choice

The __________ is the central idea or central message of the story.

• subject

• ending

• idea

• theme