Elements of Fiction Test

Name (First, Last)

Class Period

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

The lesson or message about life that the author is trying to teach the reader.

• Plot
• Theme
• Conflict

This happens at the end of the story. It is the part when the final outcome is achieved.

• Title
• Rising Action
• Resolution

The events that follow or come after the climax.

• Falling Action
• Climax
• Rising Action

The most exciting part of the story, the turning point in the story.

• Rising Action
• Exposition
• Climax

Events that increase or raise the tension and lead toward the climax.

• Rising Action
• Falling Action
• Point of View

An event that happens at the beginning of the story that sets up the conflict.

• Initiating Event
• Resolution
• Climax

ALL of the events that make up a story. The beginning, middle, and end of a story.

• Plot
• External Conflict
• Rising Action

The problem in the story.

• Plot
• Conflict
• Resolution