WorksheetsUnit 3: Elements of Horror
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 12mins
Which is the most likely SETTING for horror stories?
A dark ally
a bright beautiful party
a sunny day at the beach
on a fun roadtrip
In horror stories, readers expect to have a strong connection between
story events and setting
author's style and characters
plot and dialogue
characters and narrator
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Which are ways to categorize horror?
Source of horror
Theme
Setting
Subjects
What is the key factor in horror movies or books?
suspense
drama
pictures
dead people
What is suspense in horror?
surprise factor
anxious uncertainty about what is going to happen
giving away the ending
hanging out
In a horror movie/book the Antagonist is the?
good guy
stranger
the best friend
The force that works against the protagonist
What is not an element of horror?
tension
fear
anxiety
jokes
Why does creating suspense make a story better?
it just does..
makes the reader want to keep reading...
creates a physical, emotional, or psychological response in the reader...
your English teachers says so...
A horror story can be _____________? Check ALL that apply.
fiction
nonfiction
supernatural
not supernatural
What does Stephen King say the most satisfying type of horror is?
The Gross-out
Horror
Terror
Define foreshadowing.
A flashback of what happened previously
A hint at something that will happen later
Giving human-like characteristics to non-living things
Comparing two unlike things using like or as
Suspense makes you want to read what happens next.
True
False
When you can't trust the person telling the story, you have an
limited narrator
trustworthy narrator
humorous narrator
unreliable narrator
The time in which a story takes place
Setting
Genres
Mood
Theme
The main idea/ lesson of a work of literature
genres
mood
theme
characters
Writers build suspense using which of the following techniques?
Mysterious sounds and characters
Unexpected events and twists
Foreshadowing
All of these
What is the definition of climax?
the turning point of the story
the struggle between two characters
the beginning of the story
the point when the conflict is resolved
Interest and suspense are built during which part of the story?
exposition
rising action
climax
falling action
resolution
Choose the two words that best complete the sentence.
During the introduction, it is important to introduce the ________ and the ________.
characters, conflict
characters, falling action
climax, conflict
conflict, resolution
Which list shows the plot elements in the correct order?
exposition, falling action, climax, rising action, resolution
exposition, falling action, rising action, climax, resolution
exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
rising action, falling action, exposition, climax, resolution
The sequence of events in a story or novel is called the ________.
action
conflict
setting
plot
What movie is this character from?
The Thing
Alien
Poltergeist
The Evil Dead
