How Fiction is Built

What is the structure of a story called?

• Plod

• Setting

• Character traits

• Plot

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What do you call the main problem that drives the plot?

• Figurative language

• Conflict

• Plot

• A car

What is the conflict in "Lamb to the Slaughter"?

• Trying to get away with murder

• Murder

• Children

• A can of peas

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"I ran my fingers through the leaves, crunching all the yellow and red ones I found." What setting is this probably?

• The beach in summer

• The mountains in summer

• A forest in fall

• The ocean in fall

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"The ice made it hard to hold on, but if we let go, we would slide right down the capsizing ship's deck and into the frigid waters." Where is this setting probably happening?

• The mountains in winter

• A sinking ship in summer

• A sinking ship

• A sinking ship in winter

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CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Where is the most likely setting of "Lamb to the Slaughter"?

• Suburban UK

• Urban America

• Suburban America

• In a house in Asia

What's a theme in literature?

• A type of park

• A moral of the story

• The lesson of school

• A song you hear a lot

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What is NOT a theme (at all) of "Lamb to the Slaughter"?

• Honesty is the best policy

• Happy wife, happy life

• If you're going to be bad, be good at it

• Even the most innocent-seeming can be guilty

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

A bad summary does each of these EXCEPT:

• Is too long and detailed

• Is too short and vague

• Mixes up the order of the story

• Hits all the main points

What is a good summary of "Little Red Riding Hood"?

• Girl learns a lesson.

• Little girl delivers groceries but doesn't want to so gets distracted picking flowers also there's a wolf and he eats her and her grandma but then escapes the girl and grandma too I mean because of a woodcutter.

• A little girl procrastinates on delivering groceries, which allows a wolf to sneak around and swallow her grandma, then her. A woodcutter frees them, and the little girl decides to visit more often; the wolf drowns.

• Be a surgeon, cut down trees, save lives!

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.W.9-10.4