The elements of the story 'The Mark' by Edith Bulbring

The elements of a story

What is 'setting' in a story?

• The place where a story is set.

• The time and place a story is set.

• The weather where a story is set.

• The place where a story is published

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What is the setting of 'The Mark'

• Mangeria City

  Current Day

• Slum City and Mangeria City

• Slum City and Mangeria City

  264 PC

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What is the 'conflict' in a story?

• Fighting

• Arguing

• Some kind of tension in a story.

• Bickering

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What are the TWO types of conflict in the story?

• External conflict: between the character and other characters or society.

• Yesterday conflict: the character cannot forget what happened in the past.

• Internal Conflict: between the character and herself.

• Tomorrow conflict: the character is worried about what will happen tomorrow.

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What is the initial conflict in the story?

• Ettie enjoys stealing for Handler Xavier.

• Ettie wants to remove the mark from her spine

• Kitty does not listen to Ettie

• Ettie does not listen to Kitty

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What is the climax of a story?

• At the end of the play.

• The moment of least tension when everything is calm

• the moment of peak tension when something significant happens

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What is the climax in the story?

• The Orphan Warden learns that Ettie is resisting.

• Kitty learns that Ettie is in the Resistance

• Ettie learns that Kitty is in the Resistance.

• Mistress Hadeda spits in flies.

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What is foreshadowing?

• When the characters' shadow falls in front of her?

• When the character's shadow falls behind her.

• When the author provides a hint of something to come later in the story.

• When an author goes back in thime to explain something that has previously happened.

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What is a flashback?

• An Eskom surge.

• When the 'Monster' arrived at the beach.

• The moment the author goes back in time to explain something that occurred previously.

• Kitty eating a mango.

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What is the plot of a story?

• Scheming

• how the ideas of the story are put together.

• includes introduction, rising action, conflict, climax, falling action and resolution

• Working behind someone's back.

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