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Analyzing Plot Structure

Authored by Sarah Williams

English

8th Grade

CCSS covered

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Analyzing Plot Structure
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 5 pts

How does character motivation affect a story's plot?

It clarifies the theme of the plot.

It offers inferences about the plot.

It determines the plot elements.

It helps move the plot forward.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Discuss the role of plot analysis in understanding fiction.

Plot analysis is only useful for understanding the setting of the story.

Plot analysis helps readers understand the weather patterns in the story.

Plot analysis helps readers understand the sequence of events, the development of characters, and the overall structure of the story.

Plot analysis has no role in understanding fiction and is a waste of time.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is the significance of plot analysis in fiction?

It has no significance, it's just a waste of time

Plot analysis only confuses the readers

It is only important for non-fiction, not for fiction

It helps to understand the structure, development, and significance of the story.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

4.

LABELLING QUESTION

1 min • 6 pts

Label the parts of a plot map.

a
b
c
d
e
f

Conflict

Rising Action

Exposition

Falling Action

Climax

Resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

5.

DRAG AND DROP QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

Freytag's pyramid is a visual representation of ​ (a)   .

plot

conflict

story

events

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

6.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 20 pts

Media Image

Match the following excerpts from the text to their corresponding locations in the plot arc:

Rising Action

"High above us in the computer chamber, and it did not shiver in the chill, oily breeze that blew eternally through the main cavern"

Resolution

"He was furious. I had thought AM hated me before. I was wrong. It was not even a shadow of the hate he now slavered from every printed circuit"

Climax

"AM will be all the madder for that. It makes me a little happier. And yet...AM has won, simply..."

Exposition

"I drove the great ice-point ahead of me like a battering ram, braced against my right thigh. It struck Benny on the right side"

Falling Action

"And Benny was suddenly pulled straightforward"

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

7.

LABELLING QUESTION

1 min • 10 pts

Label the story plot diagram

g
i
j
e
d

Rising Action

Beginning

Finale

Resolution

Exposition

Climax

Problem

Issue

Realization

Falling Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

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