Literary Elements Quiz #1

Central idea or universal message of a story

• climax

• resolution

• exposition

• theme

events that happen from the climax to the resolution

• plot

• falling action

• rising action

• setting

time and place in which a story occurs

• climax

• plot

• setting

• resolution

series of events making up the action of a story

• plot

• rising action

• resolution

• falling action

point of highest action; a turning point

• exposition

• resolution

• climax

• theme

events leading up to the climax

• rising action

• falling action

• exposition

• resolution

the "working out" or unraveling of the plot

• exposition

• theme

• resolution

• plot

sets the scene; introduces characters and setting

• resolution

• exposition

• theme

• plot

_________________________ is a literary work which is set in an imaginary world and concerns unreal or magical characters.

• fantasy

• science fiction

• nonfiction

• genre

A type or category of literature is its ____________________.

• fiction

• nonfiction

• historical fiction

• genre