Plot Quiz

What is exposition?

• the decisive moment in a novel or play

• a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner

• the beginning of the story where characters, setting and conflict are introduced

• the context and environment in which something is situated

What is a protagonist?

• someone who offers opposition

• the principal character in a work of fiction

• an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction

• a professional of some sort

What is climax?

• the turning point of the story

• a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner

• the context and environment in which something is situated

• an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction

What is resolution?

• the context and environment in which something is situated

• the story comes to a reasonable ending

• an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction

• a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary work

What is setting?

• an account that sets forth the intent of a story

• an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction

• a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary work

• the context and environment in which something is situated

What is conflict?

• someone who offers opposition

• the principal character in a work of fiction

• opposition in a work of fiction between characters or forces

• a series of plot events that build up toward the climax

What is an antagonist?

• someone who offers opposition

• the principal character in a work of fiction

• an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction

• series of plot events following the climax of a narrative

What is a character?

• opposition in a work of fiction between characters or forces

• someone who offers opposition

• an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction

• the principal character in a work of fiction

What is rising action?

• a series of plot events that build up toward the climax

• the act of providing vague advance indications

• series of plot events following the climax of a narrative

• this is the turning point of the story.

What is falling action?

• a transition in a story to an earlier event or scene

• the act of providing vague advance indications

• a series of plot events that build up toward the climax

• series of plot events following the climax of a narrative