Understanding Narratives

Understanding Narratives

• narrative

• plot

• resolution

• rising action

• setting

• character

• climax

• conflict

• exposition

• falling action

Vocabulary

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• a story

narrative

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• a person, animal , or other being in a story

Character

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• the events in a story

• a plot builds up to a climax and ends in a resolution at the finish of the story.

plot

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plot structure

• the time and place of events in a story

setting

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• a character's struggle or problem

conflict

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• the introduction of the setting, characters, and conflict

exposition

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• events that develop the main conflict of a story

rising action

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• the most intense part of a story

climax

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• events after the climax and before the ending

falling action

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• the final part of a story where the problem is worked out

resolution

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Multiple Choice

Select the term that matches its definition:

a story

• character

• conflict

• narrative

• plot

Multiple Choice

Select the term that matches its definition:

the events in a story

• character

• conflict

• setting

• plot

Multiple Choice

Select the term that matches its definition:

the time and place of events in a story

• character

• conflict

• setting

• plot

Multiple Choice

Select the term that matches its definition:

a person, animal, or other being in a story

• character

• conflict

• setting

• plot

Multiple Choice

Select the term that matches its definition:

a character's struggle or problem

• character

• conflict

• setting

• plot

Multiple Choice

Select the term that matches its definition:

the introduction to the setting, characters, and conflict

• climax

• exposition

• falling action

• resolution

Multiple Choice

Select the term that matches its definition:

events that develop the main conflict of a story

• climax

• rising action

• falling action

• resolution

Multiple Choice

Select the term that matches its definition:

the most intense part of a story

• climax

• exposition

• falling action

• resolution

Multiple Choice

Select the term that matches its definition:

events after the climax and before the ending

• climax

• exposition

• falling action

• resolution

Multiple Choice

Select the term that matches its definition:

the final part of a story where the problem is worked out

• climax

• exposition

• falling action

• resolution

Multiple Choice

What part of the plot structure map is number 1?

• climax

• falling action

• exposition

• resolution

Multiple Choice

What part of the plot structure map is number 2?

• climax

• falling action

• rising action

• resolution

Multiple Choice

What part of the plot structure map is number 3?

• climax

• falling action

• rising action

• resolution

Multiple Choice

What part of the plot structure map is number 4?

• climax

• falling action

• rising action

• resolution

Multiple Choice

What part of the plot structure map is number 5?

• climax

• falling action

• rising action

• resolution

Multiple Choice

True or False?

A narrative is the time and place of events in a story.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

True or False?

The events in a story are called the plot.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

True or False?

A character is a person, animal, or other being in a story.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

True or False?

The setting is the ending of a story.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

True or False?

A character's struggle, or problem, is the conflict.

• true

• false

Match

Read the story

Long ago in a small village, Cinderella wanted to go to a party, but she had too many chores. So, she texted her friends and asked for help. Soon, every chore was done! Then, Cinderella washed up and got dressed for the party. In the end, she was too tired from all those chores and just stayed home.

Match the parts of a story with their plot structure:

• exposition

• resolution

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

Long ago in a small village, Cinderella wanted to go to a party, but she had too many chores.

In the end, she was too tired from all those chores and just stayed home

So, she texted her friends and asked for help.

Soon, every chore was done!

Then, Cinderella washed up and got dressed for the party.

• Long ago in a small village, Cinderella wanted to go to a party, but she had too many chores.

• In the end, she was too tired from all those chores and just stayed home

• So, she texted her friends and asked for help.

• Soon, every chore was done!

• Then, Cinderella washed up and got dressed for the party.