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WorksheetsStory Elements
Total questions: 54
Worksheet time: 37mins
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Class
Date
1.
Tell the important parts of a story in your own words
a)
summarize
b)
plot
c)
conflict
d)
mood
2.
A summary does what?
a)
nothing
b)
tells an opinion
c)
makes an educated guess
d)
is a shorter way to explain a text with important information or key points
3.
Which of the following statements about SUMMARIZING is true?
a)
The Summary is a thought that is true but is not in the passage.
b)
The Summary is what the passage is mostly about.
c)
The Summary is specific, detailed information contained in the passage.
d)
The Summary is always found in the first sentence of the passage.
4.
Why is the setting important in a story?
a)
It tells us the end.
b)
It tells us about the conflict.
c)
It helps us be a part of the story.
d)
Its not important
5.
What is the setting for the show "Spongebob Squarepants?"
a)
A jungle
b)
A beach
c)
Bikini Bottom
d)
Van Wert Elementary School
6.
What is a setting?
a)
The main person in the book
b)
The place where the story takes place
c)
The weather in the story
d)
The place the author was when they wrote the story
7.
Who is the main character?
a)
A character is a person, or sometimes even an animal, who takes part in the action of a short story or other literary work.
b)
Defined as the angle from which the Story is told
c)
The theme in a piece of fiction is its controlling idea or its central insight
d)
Believe in yourself
8.
What do we call the series of events in a story?
a)
Setting
b)
Plot
c)
Theme
9.
The message of the story is the . . .
a)
Setting
b)
Plot
c)
Theme
10.
What is the conflict in a story?
a)
A plot line for a story
b)
The solution for the problem
c)
the problem or complication
d)
A big fight
11.
Which part of the plot
ties up loose ends?
ties up loose ends?
a)
climax
b)
resolution
c)
falling action
d)
rising action
12.
Don't quit school.
a)
Theme
b)
Setting
c)
Plot
13.
Grandma's house.
a)
Theme
b)
Setting
c)
Plot
14.
The big bad wolf gets beat up.
a)
Theme
b)
Setting
c)
Plot
15.
Be kind to others.
a)
Theme
b)
Setting
c)
Plot
16.
Choose the two words that best go with setting.
a)
who, why
b)
where, when
c)
where, why
d)
why, when
17.
a story that could have happened, but didn't
a)
historical fiction
b)
science fiction
c)
fantasy
d)
realistic fiction
18.
writing that is true or factual
a)
fiction
b)
nonfiction
c)
drama
d)
folklore
19.
provides information on a topic
a)
biography
b)
autobiography
c)
persuasive writing
d)
informational writing
20.
contains monsters, magic, or other supernatural elements
a)
fantasy
b)
realistic fiction
c)
fairy tale
d)
legend
21.
based on a person or event from history
a)
science fiction
b)
fantasy
c)
historical fiction
d)
realistic fiction
22.
Stories that come from the author's imagination
a)
nonfiction
b)
fiction
c)
poetry
d)
folklore
23.
writing that is true or factual
a)
fiction
b)
nonfiction
c)
drama
d)
folklore
24.
attempts to influence a reader
a)
informational writing
b)
persuasive writing
c)
autobiography
d)
biography
25.
the story of one's life told by oneself
a)
informational writing
b)
persuasive writing
c)
autobiography
d)
biography
26.
the story of one's life told by another
a)
biography
b)
autobiography
c)
persuasive writing
d)
informational writing
27.
stories handed down through speech from generation to generation, have an unknown author, adapted from, and retold
a)
fiction
b)
drama
c)
folklore
d)
nonfiction
28.
A story with magic, monsters, and or talking animals-like fantasy but part of the oral tradition
a)
myth
b)
fable
c)
fairy tale
d)
legend
29.
a very short story that has a moral or life lesson, usuallly has talking animals -usually has talking animals as main characters
a)
fairy tale
b)
fable
c)
myth
d)
legend
30.
has gods or godesses and often accounts for how something came to be
a)
fairy tale
b)
legend
c)
myth
d)
tall tale
31.
an exaggerated story about something that may have been real at one time
a)
fairy tale
b)
fable
c)
legend
d)
tall tale
32.
stories that are set in the Wild West, the main character's strengths, skills, or size have been exaggerated and the tone is funny
a)
fairy tale
b)
fable
c)
legend
d)
tall tale
33.
The word "genre" means...
a)
an animal
b)
a kind or type
c)
a food
d)
a genius
34.
What does genre mean?
a)
How you look
b)
the types of pants you are wearing
c)
The category or type of book based on a distinct style
d)
the color shirt you have on
35.
A story's atmosphere or the feeling it evokes in the reader
a)
humorous
b)
matter of fact
c)
sympathetic
d)
mood
36.
Attitude a writer takes toward the subject or the audience
a)
subject of a sentence
b)
sentimental
c)
tone
d)
predicate of a sentence
37.
end of the story
a)
falling action
b)
Resolution
38.
turning point in the story
a)
Rising action
b)
Climax
39.
area of strongest tension or suspense
a)
Rising Action
b)
Climax
40.
problems are solved
a)
Resolution
b)
Expositoin
41.
problems begin to be worked out
a)
Falling Action
b)
Resolution
42.
What is the most intense part of the story?
a)
Climax
b)
Rising aCtion
43.
The end of the story is called what?
a)
Resolution
b)
The end
44.
Letter B
a)
Rising Action
b)
Exposition
45.
Letter C
a)
Climax
b)
Falling action
46.
Letter D
a)
Falling Action
b)
Climax
47.
Letter E
a)
Resolution
b)
The End
48.
What is conflict?
a)
The setting
b)
The problem
c)
The bananas
d)
The rising action
49.
What is conflict?
a)
Two characters getting along.
b)
A struggle between two opposing forces.
c)
The climax in a story.
d)
Part of the resolution.
50.
The problem or issue the main character is having is the main ...
a)
plot
b)
conflict
c)
setting
d)
theme
51.
A person or animal who experiences the events in a story
a)
genre
b)
characters
c)
climax
d)
plot
52.
the feeling the reader gets by reading the words in a story
a)
resolution
b)
setting
c)
plot
d)
mood
53.
the events that happen in a story
a)
plot
b)
setting
c)
characters
d)
genre
54.
the way a particular book is classified
a)
resolution
b)
story elements
c)
genre
d)
summarize
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