Short Story Terms Quiz

What is the highest point and turning point of the story?

• climax

• exposition

• falling action

• rising action

What are the events that begin to conclude the story and lead to the ending?

• rising action

• falling action

• exposition

• resolution

What is a fictional narrative that presents a sequence of events that includes a conflict?

• external conflict

• climax

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• rising action

What is when a character struggles with his or her own needs, desires, or emotions?

• external conflict

• resolution

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• internal conflict

What is the major events that develop the plot and lead to the climax?

• rising action

• falling action

• theme

• exposition

What is the beginning of the story where the characters and setting are introduced?

• theme

• exposition

• external conflict

• resolution

What is when a character struggles with an outside force, such as another character or something in nature?

• internal conflict

• resolution

• external conflict

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What is a conflict?

• a point of view

• a character

• a setting

• a problem

What is theme?

• what the story is mostly about

• what the characters think happened

• the message, moral, or lesson of the story

• the mood and tone of the story

What two things do you learn in the exposition of the story?

• characters and climax

• resolution and theme

• rising action and falling action

• setting and characters