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

This is the connected events that occur throughout a story.

• plot

• setting

• climax

• conflict

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

• conflict

• setting

• point-of-view

• plot

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

Which of these would be considered a setting?

• San Francisco in 1906

• a small child crying

• two animals fighting

• a broken washing machine

This is the perspective from which a story is told.

• point-of-view

• setting

• character

• theme

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.

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

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

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