Literary Terms

What is the conflict of a story?

• The time and place
• The main problem the character encounters
• The most exciting part of the story
• The beginning of a story

What is setting?

• The time and place where a story occurs
• A character's personality traits.
• The most exciting part of a story.
• The ending of a story.

What is the exposition of a story?

• Where the action is winding down after the climax.
• The end of the story where everything is resolved.
• The most exciting part of a story; the turning point.
• The beginning of a story where we learn about setting and some of the characters.

What is rising action?

• After the climax, when the action starts to wind down.
• Where the conflict of the story grows and where the events increasingly build up in excitement.
• The most exciting part of a story; the turning point.
• The beginning of the story where we learn about setting and some characters.

What is falling action?

• The end of a story where everything is resolved.
• Where the conflict of the story grows and where the events increasingly build up in excitement.
• The most exciting part of a story; the turning point.
• The part after the climax where events are winding down.

What is the theme of a story?

• The series of events in a story.
• The author's point of view.
• The major life lesson or message.
• The character's personality traits.

What is the resolution?

• Where the conflict of the story grows and where the events increasingly build up in excitement.
• The end of a story where everything is resolved.
• The most exciting part of a story; the turning point.
• The beginning of the story where we learn about setting and some characters.

What is the plot of a story?

• The series of events in a story.
• The main message or life lesson of a story.
• The most exciting part of a story; the turning point.
• The time and place that a story takes place.

When the narrator is outsideal of the story and gives the thoughts and feelings of a single character it is the ___ point of view.

• 1st person
• 3rd person omniscient
• 3rd person limited omniscient
• 3rd person objective

When the narrator of the story is a character in the story it is written in the ___ point of view

• 1st person
• 3rd person