Characters & Conflict Vocabulary Quiz

What is a character?

• A person, animal, or object that is shown as a person in a story.

• A word that expresses actions or a state of being.

• Conflict where a character faces struggles with their own conscience.

• Conflict where a character faces struggles with other characters.

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is internal conflict?

• Conflict where a character faces struggles with their own conscience.

• Conflict where a character faces struggles with other characters or nature.

• A short story's structure.

• A note on what text or part of the text a quote came from.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

What is external conflict?

• Conflict where a character faces struggles with other characters or nature.

• Conflict where a character faces struggles with their own conscience.

• A word that connects words, phrases, clauses, and sentences.

• Words taken and repeated from someone who is not the original author.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

True or False: A protagonist is one of the main characters and is usually the hero/good person in the story that works toward some goal.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

True or False: An antagonist is one of the main characters and they oppose the protagonist and whatever they’re doing.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

True or False: A static character does not change internally throughout a story when faced with external problems.

• True

• False

True or False: A dynamic character changes internally throughout a story when faced with external problems.

• False

• True

What type of character generally has one personality trait that goes undeveloped throughout a story.

• Agnostic

• Agonist

• Flat

• Internal Conflict

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

What type of character has multiple personality traits and a backstory or deep motive for their actions?

• Round

• Plot

• External Conflict

• Transitive

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D