Story Elements Quiz V3

Designed to convey information that provides insight into a character or advances the story. The background information provided by _ helps connect the reader to the emotional stakes of the narrative.

• Exposition

• Plot

• Setting

• Theme

• Characterization

What happens in a story leading up to the most exciting part of a story. The part of a book or play in which more things start to happen. The _ _ leads to the _.

• Rising Action

• Characterization

• Symbolization

• Theme

• Exposition

In a story, the _ refers to when there is a turning point from which there is no going back. The _ is the point of highest tension in a narrative.

• Climax

• Theme

• Plot

• Conflict

• Exposition

What happens near the end of a story after the _ and resolution of the major _. Simply put, _ _ is what the characters are doing after the story's most dramatic part has happened.

• Falling Action

• Climax

• Resolution

• Conflict

• Exposition

The part of the story's _ where the main problem is resolved or worked out. The _ occurs after the falling action and is typically where the story ends.

• Resolution

• Setting

• Characterization

• Rising Action

• Exposition

The series of events which make up a story. It is the action. A story cannot be a story without a _.

• Plot

• Falling Action

• Setting

• Climax

• Conflict

The creation or construction of a fictional character. Any person, animal, or figure represented in a literary work. Characters have internal and external traits. Internal traits can be inferred or revealed through actions and dialogue. External traits can be seen by someone else, for example blue eyes, short hair, freckles.

• Characterization

• Falling Action

• Plot

• Climax

• Exposition

The place, time, and environment of the story. Examples include: home, store, jungle, morning, summer, 2015, cold, dark, rainy. The _ affects what happens in the story, can change, and the characters react to the _.

• Setting

• Exposition

• Characterization

• Plot

• RIsing Action

A literary device that uses symbols, be they words, people, marks, locations, or abstract ideas to represent something beyond the literal meaning.

• Symbolism

• Characterization

• Setting

• Theme

• Rising Action

The central message of a literary work.

• Theme

• Characterization

• Setting

• Symbolism

• Exposition