WorksheetsELEMENTS IN A STORY
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 33mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Plot is:
a)
Hint/clue about what might happen later in the story
b)
A feeling of excitement of tension
c)
Describes the events happening within a story
d)
A person (or animal) in a story
2.
What is conflict?
a)
A person (or animal) in a story
b)
Time and place where the action occurs
c)
A struggle between opposing forces (the problem in the story)
d)
Broad idea in a story, or a message, or lesson conveyed by a work
3.
Theme means:
a)
Broad idea in a story, or a message, or lesson conveyed by a work
b)
The way in which something is said, told, or done
c)
A person (or animal) in a story
d)
A struggle between opposing forces (the problem in the story)
4.
The setting of a story is:
a)
Time and place where the action occurs
b)
Character changes by the end of the story
c)
Interrupt the normal sequence of events to tell about something that happened in the past (or future)
d)
Story is written the order the events actually occurred
5.
What is a character?
a)
A person (or animal) in a story
b)
When a story leaves the reader in suspense
c)
A feeling of excitement of tension
d)
Story is written the order the events actually occurred
6.
Which part of the plot is the most exciting, “highest” point of the story?
a)
Exposition
b)
Resolution
c)
Rising Action
d)
Climax
7.
What type of character is seen as the main character or focus of the story?
a)
Subordinate
b)
Protagonist
c)
Antagonist
d)
Static
8.
What type of characters remain exactly the same at the end as they were in the beginning?
a)
Antagonist
b)
Dynamic
c)
Protagonist
d)
Static
9.
The attitude a speaker or writer takes toward a subject, a character, or a reader is called?
a)
Climax
b)
Tone
c)
Flashback
d)
Foreshadowing
10.
The point from which a writer tells a story is called?
a)
Plot
b)
Conflict
c)
Point of View
d)
Theme
11.
A character that changes by the end of the story is called?
a)
Antagonist
b)
Protagonist
c)
Static Character
d)
Dynamic Character
12.
Hints/clues about what might happen later in the story is called?
a)
Flashback
b)
Foreshadowing
c)
Mood
d)
Tone
13.
Interrupting the normal sequence of events to tell about something that happened in the past is called?
a)
Point of View
b)
Conflict
c)
Flashback
d)
Foreshadowing
14.
A feeling of excitement or anxious uncertainty about what will happen next is called?
a)
Cliffhanger
b)
Foreshadowing
c)
Suspense
d)
Flashback
15.
When and where a story takes place.
a)
Character
b)
Narrative
c)
Setting
d)
Conflict
16.
A story that is NOT real
a)
Fiction
b)
Non fiction
17.
A story that is real
a)
Fiction
b)
Non Fiction
18.
The events where the problem is developing. Before the climax.
a)
Resolution
b)
Climax
c)
Rising Action
d)
Falling Action
19.
How the story ends.
a)
Rising Action
b)
Exposition
c)
Falling Action
d)
Resolution
20.
The main character. The character we care about as readers.
a)
Character
b)
Protagonist
c)
Antagonist
d)
Setting
21.
The person or thing causing the problem in the story.
a)
Conflict
b)
Antagonist
c)
Protagonist
d)
Setting
22.
The events in a story where the problem is being solved.
a)
Exposition
b)
Rising Action
c)
Climax
d)
Falling Action
23.
All the events of a story. What the story is about.
a)
Rising Action
b)
Conflict
c)
Plot
d)
Setting
24.
The series of events that make up a story is....
a)
foreshadowing
b)
plot
c)
resolution
d)
falling action
25.
A very sudden change in the expected outcome of the plot is called a....
a)
flashback
b)
flash forward
c)
plot twist
d)
climax
26.
The struggle between opposing forces in known as the...
a)
conflict
b)
rising action
c)
theme
d)
plot
27.
The protagonist of the story is often the least important character in the story, play, or novel.
a)
True
b)
False
28.
The antagonist is the character who is working against the hero or protagonist in the story.
a)
True
b)
False
29.
The main message, moral, or life lesson that the author is trying to teach you is known as the....
a)
resolution
b)
falling action
c)
theme
d)
plot
30.
The turning point in the story is known as the...
a)
conflict
b)
climax
31.
A person or animal in a story
a)
Setting
b)
Problem
c)
Character
d)
Resolution
32.
where and when the story takes place
a)
Setting
b)
Environment
c)
Climax
d)
Resolution
33.
The events that happen in a story
a)
Plot
b)
Setting
c)
Characters
d)
Resolution
34.
the turning point in the story; the high point
a)
Resolution
b)
Setting
c)
Plot
d)
Climax
35.
the problem in the story that needs to be solved
a)
Climax
b)
Resolution
c)
Problem
d)
Conflict
36.
The solution to the problem (conflict) in the story
a)
Climax
b)
End
c)
Resolution
d)
Setting
37.
The main idea, or message, in a literary work is the
a)
setting
b)
plot
c)
tone
d)
theme
38.
All of the events in a story
a)
Conflict
b)
Expostition
c)
Plot
d)
Setting
39.
What is a moral?
a)
a fact
b)
an opinion
c)
a lesson
d)
a direction
40.
Telling of a story by a narrator who is a character in the story and describes his or her own thoughts and feelings
a)
First person point of view
b)
Second person point of view
c)
Third person limited point of view
d)
Third person omniscient point of view
41.
What is the point of view of the following passage?
“I’m proud to say that I’m the first person in my family to go to college.”
“I’m proud to say that I’m the first person in my family to go to college.”
a)
Second person point of view
b)
First person point view
c)
Third person limited point of view
d)
Third person omnicient point of view
42.
What is the SETTING of the following passage?
It was a dark and stormy night. In her attic bedroom, Margaret Murray, wrapped in an old patchwork quilt, sat on the foot of her bed and watched the trees tossing in the frenzied lashing of the wind.
a)
At night, in a garden
b)
During the day, in an attic
c)
During medieval times, in a kingdom
d)
At night, in Margaret's bedroom
43.
This part of a story is where the conflict takes place and it leads up to the character having to make a decision about the problem
a)
Internal Forces
b)
Climax
c)
Rising Action
d)
Falling Action
44.
The beginning of a narrative that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances.
a)
setting
b)
resolution
c)
exposition
d)
conflict
45.
What is the feeling created in the reader as he/she reads the story?
a)
theme
b)
mood
c)
dynamic character
d)
conflict
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