Final Exam Review

What is the Time and Place of the Story?

• Rising Action
• Plot
• Conflict
• Setting

True or False;  The resolution is always at the very end of a story.

• True
• False

The exposition...

• Introduces the reader to the characters and setting
• Is the part of the story where a character changes
• Is the part of the story when the conflict is resolved
• Is the part of the story where the events help the reader understand what the conflict is

The _______ is everything that happens in a story.

• problem
• sequence
• plot
• solution

The _______ is the most exciting part of the story.

• exposition
• poem
• rising action
• climax

The end of the story is called the ______.

• falling action
• rising action
• resolution
• climax

What is the part of the story leading up to the climax?

• exposition
• resolution
• rising action
• None of the Above

My best friend was having a party Friday night, but I also had a baseball game.  This was going to be a tough decision.  If I do not go to the game, I will let my team down.

• It's important to be loyal
• Your friends are the most important things in life
• Being good at sports is the best way to get friends
• it's important to never give up

Kim had gone through her closet with her mom over the weekend.  She remembered a new girl at school who always seemed to wear the same pants over and over.  Kim wondered what she could do with the clothes.  She handed the new girl a bag as she passed her in the hallway.

• sacrifice is difficult sometimes
• it's better to give than to receive
• friendship is the most important thing in life
• it's important to be honest

What is a theme?

• a story line

• the topic/subject

• a universal truth about life and people

• the time and place of an event