Heartbeat Vocabulary

What are characters in a work of literature?

• The setting of the story

• The main conflict in the story

• The people, animals, or imaginary creatures in the story

• The theme of the story

What is a conflict in a story?

• The time and place of the action

• A struggle between opposing forces

• The main character's best friend

• The resolution of the story

What does the setting of a story include?

• The main character's thoughts

• The author's biography

• Geographic location, historical period, season, time of day, and culture

• The moral lesson of the story

What is a short story?

• A long novel with multiple conflicts

• A work of fiction that centers on a single idea and can be read in one sitting

• A poem with a complex structure

• A biography of a famous person

What is metabolism?

• The process of writing a story

• The chemical processes that give a living thing energy and produce growth

• The main conflict in a story

• The setting of a story

What does the word "moot" mean?

• Important and relevant

• Unimportant or irrelevant

• Full of energy

• Temporarily confused

What does the word "futile" mean?

• Full of energy

• Having a useful result

• Having no useful or meaningful result

• Temporarily confused

What does the word "delirious" mean?

• Full of energy

• Temporarily confused, often because of fever or shock

• Having a useful result

• Unimportant or irrelevant