Story Elements Review

What is the beginning of a story called?

• resolution
• exposition
• conflict
• climax

What is a setting?

• A person that a story is about.
• The time and place where a story takes place.
• The message or life lesson of a story.
• The turning point or exciting event in a story.

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What do you call the event that introduces the conflict in a story?

• theme
• setting
• resolution
• initiating event

What part of a story is the turning point or big event?

• climax
• resolution
• conflict
• exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

"A computer virus shuts down the internet across the country."  
What type of conflict is this?

• individual vs. individual
• individual vs. supernatural
• individual vs. self
• individual vs. technology

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"A small group of outlaws decide to take down the government."
What type of conflict is this?

• Individual vs. Society
• Individual vs. Technology
• Individual vs. Nature
• Individual vs. Individual

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"Roger feels guilty for taking money from his sister's purse."
What type of conflict is this?

• Individual vs. Supernatural
• Individual vs. Nature
• Individual vs. Self
• Individual vs. Technology

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is the end of a story called?

• climax
• exposition
• resolution
• falling action

Which of these is an example of a theme?

• It was a dark and stormy night.
• Friends are the family you choose for yourself.
• And they lived happily ever after.
• Jack and Jill climbed the hill, but then they fell back to the bottom.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

Which of these is the best summary of the novel Holes?

• Stanley is wrongfully sent to a work camp, where he makes friends, grows stronger, and breaks his family's curse.
• The boys at Camp Green Lake are forced to dig holes in order to "build character".
• Zero was abandoned by his mother, became homeless, and was sent to work camp; in the end, he finds his mom.
• Katherine Barlow and Sam the Onion man had a forbidden romance that ended violently.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.3