Key Elements of FIction

A perspective from which a story is told in 1st or 3rd person is called the ______.

• a. Conflict

• b. Point of View

• c. Plot

• d. Setting

This refers to the time and place of the story.

• a. Characters

• b. Setting

• c. Point of View

• d. Climax

This refers to the main idea, lesson or message of a story.

• a. Theme

• b. Plot

• c. Setting

• d. Conflict

This part of the plot describes the conflict or problem that the characters must face.

• a. Setting

• b. Rising Action

• c. Resolution

• d. Climax

The highest point of a story is the ______.

• a. Rising Action

• b. Resolution

• c. Conflict

• d. Climax

In this type of conflict the character has struggles with his/her own feelings, values, or needs.

• a. Man vs. Nature

• b. Man vs. Himself

• c. Man vs. Society

• d. Man vs. Fate

This part of the plot comes after the falling action and brings the story to a satisfactory end.

• a. Conflict

• b. Setting

• c. Rising Action

• d. Resolution

The farmer is protecting his crops from pestilence. What type of conflict is evident in the given example?

• a. Man vs. Nature

• b. Man vs. Himself

• c. Man vs. Society

• d. Man vs. Fate

It ties up loose ends in the story.

• a. New Year's resolution

• b. Rising action

• c. Setting

• d. Denouement

The exposition is _______.

• a. the end of the action in the story

• b. the introduction of the characters, setting and background

• c. the high point of the story

• d. the resolution of the conflict