Story Elements Review

What is the beginning of a story called?

• resolution
• exposition
• conflict
• climax

What is a setting?

• A person that a story is about.
• The time and place where a story takes place.
• The message or life lesson of a story.
• The turning point or exciting event in a story.

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What do you call the event that introduces the conflict in a story?

• theme
• setting
• resolution
• initiating event

What part of a story is the turning point or big event?

• climax
• resolution
• conflict
• exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

"A computer virus shuts down the internet across the country."  
What type of conflict is this?

• individual vs. individual
• individual vs. supernatural
• individual vs. self
• individual vs. technology

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"A small group of outlaws decide to take down the government."
What type of conflict is this?

• Individual vs. Society
• Individual vs. Technology
• Individual vs. Nature
• Individual vs. Individual

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"Roger feels guilty for taking money from his sister's purse."
What type of conflict is this?

• Individual vs. Supernatural
• Individual vs. Nature
• Individual vs. Self
• Individual vs. Technology

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the end of a story called?

• climax
• exposition
• resolution
• falling action

Which of these is an example of a theme?

• It was a dark and stormy night.
• Friends are the family you choose for yourself.
• And they lived happily ever after.
• Jack and Jill climbed the hill, but then they fell back to the bottom.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Which of these is the best summary of the novel Holes?

• Stanley is wrongfully sent to a work camp, where he makes friends, grows stronger, and breaks his family's curse.
• The boys at Camp Green Lake are forced to dig holes in order to "build character".
• Zero was abandoned by his mother, became homeless, and was sent to work camp; in the end, he finds his mom.
• Katherine Barlow and Sam the Onion man had a forbidden romance that ended violently.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.3