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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

The environment or surrounding in which an event or story takes place.

mood
external conflict
setting
plot

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Actions, dialogue, and narrative description that reveal a sense of a character's personality to the reader.

Setting
Characterization
Personalization
Flashback

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Where a writer/narrator gives an advance hint of what is going to happen later on in the story. Any event, action, dialogue or thought that gives a clue to what is going to happen.

irony
flashback
foreshadowing
theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

When an author interrupts the chronological sequence of a story by inserting past events. 

flashback
foreshadowing
flashshadowing
foreback

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

writing that uses like or as to compare two unlike things

simile
personification
compare/contrast
alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

the moment in the story when the action reaches its greatest conflict

climax
rising action
falling action
description

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

the perspective from which the story is told. Could be 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person.

climax
point of view
description
opinion

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

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