Unit 1: Characteristics of Fiction

What are the invented people, animals, or objects who take part in the events of a story called?

• characters

• plot

• setting

• climax

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

This is the connected events that occur throughout a story.

• plot

• setting

• climax

• conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

These are the problems characters face due to struggles that occur between them and something else.

• conflict

• setting

• point-of-view

• plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

What is the best definition of setting?

• the time and place in which a story takes place

• problems that a character face

• perspective from which a story is narrated

• connected events that occur in a story

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

Which of these would be considered a setting?

• San Francisco in 1906

• a small child crying

• two animals fighting

• a broken washing machine

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

This is the perspective from which a story is told.

• point-of-view

• setting

• character

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

How does the reader know when a story is told from a first-person point-of-view?

• The narrator knows what everyone is thinking and feeling.

• The narrator participates in the action and uses first-person pronouns.

• The narrator sees and records the events through one character's eyes.

• The narrator is an outside voice.

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

When the narrator of the story knows what every character is thinking and feeling, this is what point-of-view?

• first-person

• second-person

• third-person limited

• third-person omniscent

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What is theme?

• the time and place in which a story takes place

• the message or insight into life that can be learned

• problems that the characters face

• a long word of fiction

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

Which of these could be the theme of a story?

• When a person is determined, she can achieve her goals.

• sitting in a chair

• choosing the right direction

• wearing a red shirt

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2