Plot Review

The sequence of events in a story is the definition of...

• literary patterns

• plot

• parallel episodes

• exposition

How many parts are in the plot line?

• 7

• 5

• 8

• 6

repeated events within a story is the definition of...

• parallel episodes

• plot

• literary patterns

• rising action

Which of the following is an example of a parallel episode from "The Tell-Tale Heart"?

• killing the old man

• hearing the heartbeat

• the police arriving

• dismembering the corpse

The initial problem or goal that leads to the conflict is called the..

• complication

• internal conflict

• exposition

• external conflict

the part of the story where the author introduces the characters and setting is called the...

• exposition

• rising action

• climax

• denouement

When does the exposition occur in the story?

• beginning

• middle

• end

• the first sentence

The turning point in the story and the most dramatic part is called the...

• climax

• denoument

• complication

• rising action

The struggle between two opposing forces is called the...

• conflict

• denouement

• complication

• climax

The events that lead up to the climax is called the...

• rising action

• falling action

• denouement

• climax