Setting Shapes, Characters, and Plot

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English
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6th - 8th Grade
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Hard
Margaret Anderson
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12 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
15 mins • 1 pt
Setting tells you where and when a story occurs. Setting includes three things: time, place, and duration. Time includes the time period. It can also include elapsed time, or how much time passes for the characters. The place is where a story happens, including details about what that space looks, sounds or smells like or what it is like to live there.
Read the following passage from Alice in Wonderland:
Once in the wood, she was anxious to get back to her right size again, and then to get into that lovely garden. But how? Peeping over a mushroom, she beheld a large blue caterpillar sitting on the top with its arms folded...
Which detail from the text provides a clue to the place where this passage takes place?
“Once in the wood…"
“A large blue caterpillar..”
“...get back to her right size again...”
“...with its arms folded”
2.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
15 mins • 1 pt
How do you know what the setting of a story is? Sometimes, a narrator will tell you where and when the story occurs right away. Often, though, you’ll have to look for clues to determine the setting. Try to find words or phrases that tell you what it looks like or sounds like where the characters are. Characters can also give clues about the setting. Be sure that your inferences about the setting are backed up by evidence from the text.
Read the following passage:
As Maribelle hurried down the street, the wind swept the snow along the sidewalk and hid her footsteps, so that it looked as if no one had passed. Above her, the cold, silent skyscrapers of the city loomed. The whole block was eerily silent in the snowstorm, and she pulled her coat tightly around her. Maribelle had only moved here a few months before. She came because she wanted to be a singer. But right now, she was frightened.
Which two details from the passage indicate the setting?
“Above her, the cold, silent skyscrapers of the city loomed.”
“The whole block was eerily silent in the snowstorm, and she pulled her coat tightly around her. ”
“But right now, she was frightened.”
“She came because she wanted to be a singer.”
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
15 mins • 1 pt
Which option describes a plot that can only take place in a specific setting?
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
15 mins • 1 pt
Setting can symbolize, or stand for, other elements of a story. For example, when setting changes, a character might change. Setting can also symbolize what a character is feeling in a particular scene. Setting can also help us understand the choices that characters make.
Read the following passage:
Gilberto had been excited to go to the beach but when he got there and saw how crowded it was, he became annoyed. The sun twinkled in the sky, a warm yellow globe. The sound of the ocean drummed in his ears and the sand itched his ankles and feet. Beside him, his sister slurped loudly on an ice cream cone. “Could you not?” Gilberto asked.
Which detail about the setting tells us that Gilberto is annoyed?
“The sound of the ocean drummed in his ears and the sand itched his ankles and feet.”
“The sun twinkled in the sky, a warm yellow globe.”
“Gilberto had been excited to go to the beach...”
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
15 mins • 1 pt
Which of the following settings suggest a tense and nervous mood?
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
15 mins • 1 pt
Which option is the most likely setting for a story with the theme “humans vs nature?”
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The part of the story that ties up all the loose ends and takes care of the conflict
climax
resolution
rising action
initiation event
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