Narrative Elements Pre-Assessment

The atmosphere or feeling in a literary work (short story, poem, etc.) is called the _____________.

• conflict

• protagonist

• text features

• mood

The struggle or problem faced by the main character in a story is called the _____________.

• protagonist

• metaphor

• conflict

• flashback

The main character of a narrative (story) is also known as the _____________.

• protagonist

• plot

• meter

• antagonist

A prediction or hint about what will happen later on in a narrative is called _____________.

• personification

• foreshadowing

• alliteration

• genre

When the author takes the reader back in time to a memory, he/she is using a technique called _____________.

• foreshadowing

• alliteration

• metaphor

• flashback

When characters speak, this is called _____________.

• figurative language

• dialogue

• dialect

• mood

The _____________ of a story includes the time, place, and environment where the action takes place.

• plot

• setting

• resolution

• conflict

The conflict (problem) of a story is solved, or at least put to rest for a while, during the _____________ of a story.

• plot

• setting

• resolution

• rising action

The sequence or pattern of events in a story is called the _____________.

• setting

• conflict

• resolution

• plot

Which passage has a first-person narrator?

• The Scarecrow found a tree full of nuts and filled Dorothy’s basket with them, so that she would not be hungry for a long time. She thought this was very kind and thoughtful of the Scarecrow, but she laughed heartily at the awkward way in which the poor creature picked up the nuts. His padded hands were so clumsy that he dropped almost as many as he put in the basket. But the Scarecrow did not mind how long it took him to fill the basket, for it enabled him to keep away from the fire, as he feared a spark might get into his straw and burn him up.

• We lived on the main residential street in town—Atticus, Jem and I, plus Calpurnia our cook. Jem and I found our father satisfactory: he played with us, read to us, and treated us with courteous detachment… Our mother died when I was two, so I never felt her absence. She was a Graham from Montgomery; Atticus met her when he was first elected to the state legislature.

• You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. But here you are, and you cannot say that the terrain is entirely unfamiliar, although the details are fuzzy.