"Seventh Grade" Test Review

Place the following plot elements in order.

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Resolution

• Exposition

• Rising Action

a group of words having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words; contains both a literal and figurative definition

• Personification

• Rising action

• Exposition

• Idiom

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

• Falling action

• Hyperbole

• Exposition

• Inciting incident

the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form

• Personification

• Rising action

• Resolution

• Climax

The event that sets the story in motion

• Hyperbole

• Falling action

• Inciting incident

• Resolution

The most intense part of the story

• Idiom

• Rising action

• Personification

• Climax

Characters, setting, and the basic situation of the plot are introduced

• Exposition

• Falling action

• Hyperbole

• Inciting incident

Conflicts are resolved; loose ends are tied up

• Resolution

• Idiom

• Climax

• Personification

Complications within the story arise

• Exposition

• Inciting incident

• Hyperbole

• Rising action

Events in a story that follow the climax and lead to the resolution

• Climax

• Falling action

• Resolution

• Inciting incident