literary term review

Setting tells you where and when a story occurs. Setting includes two things: time and place. Time includes the time period. It can also include elapsed time, or how much time passes for the characters. The place is where a story happens, including details about what that space looks, sounds or smells like or what it is like to live there.

Read the following passage from Alice in Wonderland: 

Once in the wood, she was anxious to get back to her right size again, and then to get into that lovely garden. But how? Peeping over a mushroom, she beheld a large blue caterpillar sitting on the top with its arms folded...

Which detail from the text provides a clue to the place where this passage takes place?

• “Once in the wood…"
• “A large blue caterpillar..”
• “...get back to her right size again...”
• “...with its arms folded”

A major turning point in a plot

• climax
• falling action
• sequence
• citing

The process of arriving at some conclusion

• sequence
• inference

The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character

• characterization
• setting
• plot

Another way of saying theme

• setting
• plot
• central idea
• resolution

The time and place of a story

• static
• plot
• setting

Kelly knows that she saw her friend, Kimmy, steal a pair of earrings, and that she should tell someone. However, Kelly is her friend, and she doesn’t want her to get into trouble.

• internal conflict

• external conflict

Two candidates are running for mayor. Only one can win.

• internal conflict

• external conflict

Rosa wants to play on the school football team, but school rules say only boys can play football.

• internal conflict

• external conflict

Roger found a wallet on the ground. He opened up the wallet and saw an old woman's ID card. Roger took the money out of the wallet and threw the wallet in a ditch.

What character trait does Roger demonstrate?

• cooperative

• gentle

• selfish