Intro to Short Stories Quiz

What is a Short Story?

• A brief work of fiction

• A long work of fiction

• A brief work of non-fiction

• A long work of non-fiction

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

What is a literary device?

• An important thing in a story that helps the main character

• A device to help you write literature

• A device to help you read literature

• A literary element or structure

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

What is a protagonist?

• A person who is for a political movement

• The leading character in a fiction

• The hostile or opposing character in a fiction

• A professional laser tag player

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is an antagonist?

• A character who opposes or is hostile against something in a fiction

• A superhero that can shrink to the size of an ant

• A leading character in a fictional text

• A small character of no importance.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

A static character is a character that doesn't change over the course of a story.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

A dynamic character changes, transforms, grows, and/or learns a valuable life lesson over the course of a story.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

What is a round character?

• A character who only hangs around a specific area in a story

• A complex character that the audience can relate to.

• A simple character that is not complicated

• A character like, Humpty Dumpty, which has a round shape.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

A flat character is an uncomplicated character.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Choose all of the things that lets the reader know the setting of a story.

• When a story takes place

• Where a story takes place

• How a character solves a problem

• Why the author created the main character

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

Which one of these events does not make up the plot?

• Exposition

• Inciting Incident

• Climax

• Closing Actions

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.5