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

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Setting also includes:

• Characters

• Action

• Place

• Attitudes

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

• Tone

• Mood

• Setting

• Plot

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CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

What is a symbol in literature?

• A picture

• A person

• Something that a character says or does

• Something that represents a deeper meaning

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

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

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

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

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

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

• Mysterious

• Happy

• Excited

• Beautiful

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CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

A struggle between opposing forces is called:

• Mood

• Climax

• Plot

• Conflict

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

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CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Struggle between a character and an opposing force is:

• Conflict

• External Conflict

• Internal Conflict

• Opposing Conflict

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3