WorksheetsShort Story Vocab
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Plot
a)
To plan something
b)
A series of related events that make up a story or drama
c)
Play on the multiple meanings of a word
d)
Repeated word
2.
Exposition (part of plot)
a)
Poetry that does not have a regular meter
b)
The use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot
c)
The beginning of a story
d)
Type of writing that explains, gives information, defines, or clarifies an idea
3.
Foreshadowing
a)
The use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in a plot
b)
Telling of a story with no known author
c)
Scene in a movie, play, short story, novel, or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot to flash backward and tell what happened at an earlier time
d)
Short piece of nonfiction that examines a single subject from a limited point of view
4.
Rising Action
a)
Repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines
b)
A denouement
c)
Statement or situation that seems to be a contradiction but reveals truth
d)
a series of relevant incidents that create suspense, interest and tension in a narrative
5.
Watershed event
a)
The moment of greatest tension
b)
An event in American history that is still referenced in literature today
c)
The main character makes a decision that will change the rest of the story
d)
Events where water is spilled in the plot (symbolic)
6.
Verbal irony
a)
Saying one thing but meaning something else; saying the opposite of what you mean
b)
Type of writing that is aimed at leading the reader or listener to think or act in a certain way
c)
Repetition of accented vowel sounds, and all sounds following them, in words that are close together in a poem
d)
Speaking in an unusual way
7.
Resolution
a)
When a character decides on a list of things that they will do differently
b)
A type of writing in which the writer looks at a topic as a whole and then breaks it down into smaller pieces
c)
The end of the story
d)
A solution to a problem
8.
External conflict
a)
Conflict that is within a character (example: man vs. self)
b)
Conflict with anything outside of the character (example: man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. society)
c)
A situation in which an individual has issues with their personal image
d)
The end of a paragraph
9.
Falling action
a)
At point in the story in which the protagonist has a sequence of falling (symbolic)
b)
When the opposite of what you expect occurs
c)
Referencing something
d)
All of the events that occur as a result of the climax
10.
Symbolism
a)
The use of cymbals in music
b)
When something stands both for its basic meaning (literal meaning) and also something outside of itself (implied meaning)
c)
An event in which the protagonist makes a decision that will change the rest of the story
d)
The use of symbols in art
11.
Protagonist
a)
The main character of the story. The character that the plot follows.
b)
The bad guy in the story
c)
A character that causes good things to happen to the main character
d)
Struggles within a character
12.
Dramatic Irony
a)
Referencing something outside of the fictional world
b)
When a character is mean to another character for no apparent reason
c)
The action of correctly foreshadowing
d)
When the audience knows more than the characters do
13.
internal conflict
a)
Conflict outside of the character (example: man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. society)
b)
When you have a tummy ache
c)
Conflict within the character (example: man vs. self)
d)
A character that does not change
14.
allusions
a)
Predicting what will happen next
b)
When the protagonist makes a decision that will change the rest of the story
c)
When a person's eyes play a trick on them and they believe they see something that is not really there
d)
When the author references a famous person, place, piece of art, etc.
15.
Which of these is a 3-chunk paragraph?
a)
TS, CD, CM, CM, CS
b)
CS, CD, TC, CS, CD, CM, CM, TS, CD, CM
c)
TS, CD, CM, CM, CD, CM, CM, CD, CM, CM, CS
d)
TS, CD, CM, CM, CD, CM, CM, CS
16.
TS stands for...
a)
Title sentence
b)
Topic sentence
c)
Total sentence
d)
Top sentence
17.
CD stands for...
a)
Compact Detail
b)
Computer Desk
c)
Compact Disk
d)
Concrete Detail
18.
CM stands for...
a)
Commentary
b)
Communication Sentence
c)
Complete sentence
d)
Commute
19.
CS stands for...
a)
Complete sequence
b)
Closing sentence
c)
Concrete sentence
d)
Commentary sentence
20.
TAG stands for...
a)
Totally Awesome Guy
b)
Title Author Genre
c)
Title Audience Genre
d)
Type Argument Guess
21.
TLQC stands for...
a)
Type Language Quote Cite
b)
Title Literary Quote Ciation
c)
Transition Lead-in Quote Citation
d)
Totally Lame Quibbler Cola
22.
Antagonist
a)
The bad guy
b)
The good guy
c)
The character that opposes the protagonist
d)
The character that helps the protagonist
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