Short Story Elements Quiz

The narrator tells the story from a character's point of view and uses pronouns like "I" and "we"

• First person

• Third person omniscient

• Third Person Limited

• Second Person

A character torn between two difficult choices is facing...

• external conflict

• internal conflict

• crisis

• flashback

When you think of the challenge, obstacle, or decision a character faces, you are thinking of the...

• conflict

• rising action

• antagonist

• exposition

In a fairy tale, this is when the characters "live happily ever after."

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

• resolution

The perspective from which a story is told is called the...

• author

• plot twist

• point of view

• scene

Rising action

• Events leading up to the climax

• Sequence of events in a story

• Most exciting moment of the story; turning point

• A narrative device that hints at coming events

Which of the following is an internal conflict?

• person vs self

• person vs fate

• person vs society

• person vs person

Falling action

• events after the climax, leading to the resolution

• events leading up to the climax

• A struggle between opposing forces

• Most exciting moment of the story; the turning point

the person who tells the story

• Narrator
• Author
• Character
• Reader

characterization

• attitude a writer takes toward the subject

• Actions, dialogue, and narrative description that reveal a sense of a character's personality to the reader.

• The narrator tells the story using the pronouns "You", "Your," and "Yours" to address a reader or listener directly.

• A character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story