2.02 Exploring Fiction Quiz Study Guide

What does generative writing allow a fiction writer to do?

• generate new ideas for possible plots, characters, and settings

• develop characters into well-polished protagonists and antagonists

• review the plot, setting, and characters for revision

• write true accounts of characters' lives

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

What is magical realism?

• technology (imagined or real) in outer space

• magical elements or supernatural beings

• witches, wizards, and ghouls

• normal people doing boring, normal things without magic

What is a genre?

• a category of cat food

• a category of language

• a category of literature

• a category of noun

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What should a mystery story include?

• solution to a crime

• blood, guts, and gore

• a bumbling cop

• a very long-winded explanation of the justice system

What does the sub-genre of historical fiction typically include?

• fictional characters in a historical setting

• a diary entry by a real character who really existed

• characters lost in time (time travelers)

• characters in an imaginary time period

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What sub-genre is concerned more with style and theme than plot?

• short story

• literary fiction

• poetry

• western

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What is the setting of a story?

• time and place

• height and width

• locale and location

• language and accent

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What is a protagonist? What is an antagonist?

• protagonist: time and place

  antagonist: sub-genre of fiction

• protagonist: productive

  antagonist: unrpoductive

• protagonist: attractive/"nice"

  antagonist: ugly/"mean"

• protagonist: main character/"hero"

  antagonist: against the main character/"villain"

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

What is the correct definition of plot?

• the arrangement of events in a story

• the arrangement of characters in a story

• the arrangement of setting in a story

• the arrangement of emotion in a story

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

What is the theme of a story?

• central idea/message

• central time/location

• central song/theme song

• central mood/emotion

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2