Creative Writing: Parts of a story

The Introduction should describe the...

• The climax of the story

• Initial setting of the story

• Only the protagonist’s dialogue

• The ending first

The initial setting should include:

• 3 colors, 2 names, 1 simile

• 3 adjectives, 2 sounds, sights and smells, 1 weather detail

• 3 times of day, 2 seasons, 1 conflict, falling action and resolution

• 3 literary devices, 2 sensory details, 1 movement by the protagonist

Where does the cliffhanger go?

• End of the rising action

• Beginning of the resolution

• Before the title

• End of the introduction

How do you describe a character?

• By telling the reader directly without showing

• By showing the reader Indirectly without telling

• Using only their clothes

• By copying another author’s description

Which of the following is an indirect description?

• His dark brown eyes widened with the sight of her face.

• She was a kind and gentle person at least that's what everyone said.

• He was very nervous, he wanted to die.

• They were all afraid of the dark.

In order for a character to be seen as 3-dimensional, the character should...

• Be the tallest in the story

• Speak, be described, and be named

• Appear only in the climax, falling action and resolution

• Laugh, wear colorful clothes, and dance

Your dialogue should be written in which order?

• Action only, no tags

• Speech, dialogue tag, action

• Dialogue tag, action, song

• Action, dialogue tag, description

NSNL is something we use to structure our dialogue. It stands for:

• Next sentence, next lesson

• Not so noisy lines

• New speaker, new line

• No story, no life

What type of words are used in a climax?

• Quiet, peaceful words

• Descriptive words only

• Action words

• Random vocabulary

Which part of the story should be the longest and most detailed?

• Resolution

• Climax

• Rising Action

• Introduction