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Plot Structure

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the definition of plot?

a)

Edgar

b)

The setting of the story.

c)

The characters of the story.

d)

The events that occur in the story.

2.

What is the definition of climax?

a)

The highest point of action in the story or turning point.

b)

Doug

c)

The beginning of the story.

d)

The end of the story.

3.

What is the definition of falling action?

a)

Francis

b)

The end of the story.

c)

The events leading to the resolution and bringing the conflict to a close.

d)

The middle of the story.

4.

What is the definition of exposition?

a)

The end of the story.

b)

The beginning of the story including the setting and character.

c)

Hank

d)

The conflict of the story.

5.

What is the definition of inciting incident.

a)

The beginning of the story.

b)

The ending of the story.

c)

The setting.

d)

The event that sets the story into motion; your trigger event.

6.

What is the definition of resolution?

a)

The beginning of the story.

b)

The end of the story.

c)

Frank

d)

The setting of the story.

7.

What is the definition of rising action?

a)

The events following the inciting incident and leads up to the climax of the story.

b)

Stecher

c)

The end of the story.

d)

The beginning of the story.

8.

What is the definition of setting?

a)

Schick

b)

The pace the setting takes place.

c)

The time, place, and environment of the story.

d)

The time the story takes place.

9.

What is the definition of theme?

a)

What the story is mostly about.

b)

The moral or lesson you learn from reading the story.

c)

The point of view of the characters.

d)

Doughty

10.

What is the definition of conflict?

a)

The problem or struggle the character must overcome in the story.

b)

A problem.

c)

Zimmerman

d)

The time, place, and environment of the story.

11.

What is the definition of characterization?

a)

Watkin

b)

The point of view of the character.

c)

The time, place, and environment of the story.

d)

How the author introduces the personality of the characters to the reader.

12.

What is the definition of main idea?

a)

The lesson or moral of the story you are meant to learn.

b)

What the story is mostly about.

c)

Holder

d)

The problem or struggle the character must overcome.