Setting and Plot

Which questions about a story will the setting answer?

• What is the author's attitude towards the characters.

• Where and when does the story take place.

• Who are the people the story is about.

• Why and when did the author write the story.

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Setting can give clues about a story’s ________.

• Plot

• Conflict

• Mood

• All of the above.

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Which of the following might describe the setting of a story?

• a frog and a witch

• happy and loving

• a high school in 1956

• love is stronger than fear

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What is the setting of the passage:

One summer day, Randolph the Bright slept alone in his room in the castle at Reddington. The light of morning seeped slowly through his curtains. Randolph blinked against the day, smiling as his dream came to a peaceful conclusion.

• winter in a train station in a busy city

• a hospital in the future

• a summer morning in a castle

• a grocery store in the 1980's

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What can you infer from the passage: One summer day, Randolph the Bright slept alone in his room in the castle at Reddington. The light of morning seeped slowly through his curtains. Randolph blinked against the day, smiling as his dream came to a peaceful conclusion.

• Randolph is a mean person

• Randolph is a prince or king

• Randolph has an older sister

• The setting does not give us any clues about Randolph

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If the passage below were set at Lena’s birthday party, what could you infer?

Lena laughed loudly. “I can’t believe you did that!” she said, smiling.

• Lena might be talking to her uncle

• Lena might be mad at her best friend

• Lena might be a very selfish character

• Lena might have received an unexpected present

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If the passage below were set in a snowy park where children were playing, what could you infer?

Lena laughed loudly. “I can’t believe you did that!” she said, smiling.

• Lena might have been gently hit by a snowball

• Lena might be lost

• Lena might be playing a board game or a card game

• Lena might be talking to herself

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In the passage below, what can you infer about the setting of the story?

When the men reached Oregon, they stepped out of their wagons and embraced. The journey was long and dangerous, but they made it. Soon, their families would follow their trail in their own wagons, leaving their homes in the East to meet them in this brand new land: the West.

• The story might take place on a different planet.

• The story might take place in the past

• The story might take place in a desert

• We can't make any inferences about the setting from this passage.

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What is the climax?

• The turning point in the story

• The struggle between the two characters

• The beginning of the story

• The point when the conflict is resolved

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Interest and suspense are built during which part of the story?

• Introduction

• Rising action

• Falling action

• Climax

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