READING: TEST: Short Story Elements

1. This is the highest point of interest and the turning point of the story. The reader wonders what will happen next; will the conflict be resolved or not?

• exposition
• rising action
• falling action
• climax

2. This is the final outcome or untangling of events in the story.

• resolution
• exposition
• climax
• falling action

3. The beginning of the story where the characters and the setting are revealed.

• falling action
• exposition
• rising action
• resolution

4. The events and complications begin to resolve themselves.

• resolution
• rising action
• falling action
• climax

5. This is where the events in the story become complicated and the conflict in the story is revealed

• exposition
• climax
• falling action
• rising action

6. The time and location in which a story takes place.

• theme
• setting
• plot
• conflict

7. A struggle with a force outside one's self.

• internal conflict
• external conflict

8. A struggle within one's self.

• internal conflict
• external conflict

9. One character is clearly central to the story with all major events having some importance to this character.

• protagonist
• antagonist

10. The opposer of the main character.

• protagonist
• antagonist