Plot, Setting, and Mood Vocab

Setting is:

• The time of a story

• The way characters put things away

• Who the characters are

• The main events of a story

Setting also includes:

• Characters

• Action

• Place

• Attitudes

The feelings or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader is the:

• Tone

• Mood

• Setting

• Plot

What is a symbol in literature?

• A picture

• A person

• Something that a character says or does

• Something that represents a deeper meaning

True or false: A flag can be a symbol of pride?

• True

• False

Which of the following can also indicate setting?

• How many people there are

• The rising action

• Clothes, time of day, weather

• Nothing: setting is just time and place

What kind of mood would a story have that is set on a dark and stormy night?

• Mysterious

• Happy

• Excited

• Beautiful

A struggle between opposing forces is called:

• Mood

• Climax

• Plot

• Conflict

Internal conflict is:

• Conflict within the mind of a character

• Conflict with an opposing force

• A problem

• A conflict between two characters that occurs indoors

Struggle between a character and an opposing force is:

• Conflict

• External Conflict

• Internal Conflict

• Opposing Conflict