Unit 1 Assessment Review

What is the SETTING of the following passage?

It was a dark and stormy night. In her attic bedroom, Margaret Murray, wrapped in an old patchwork quilt, sat on the foot of her bed and watched the trees tossing in the frenzied lashing of the wind.

• At night, in a garden

• During the day, in an attic

• During medieval times, in a kingdom

• At night, in Margaret's bedroom

What part of the story is highlighted in red?

Carrie is a 10 year old girl who really wanted a bike. Her mother said that she would have to save up the money herself to buy a bike. Carrie started saving all of her money. Each week when she got her allowance she would save it until she had enough. When she had enough, she went to get it but she could not find it anywhere. Carrie ran crying to her mother. Her mother said, “Let’s go look one more time”. They soon found the money hidden behind a shoe in the corner in the floor. Carrie’s mother then took her to the store where she was able to buy her bike.

• Conclusion

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Climax

“Once upon a time, there were three bears. There was a Daddy Bear, who was very big, a Mama Bear, who was middle-sized, and a Baby Bear, who was very small. They all lived together in a little cottage in the middle of the woods."

This is an example of . . .

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

• Resolution

Soon after this the three bears returned. Father bear looked down on his bowl. “Someone's been eating my porridge,” he growled. Mother bear looked down on her bowl. “And someone's been eating my porridge too,” she said. And then baby bear cried, “And someone's been eating my porridge and at it's all gone!”

This is an example of . . .

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Conflict

• Resolution

Goldilocks opened her eyes and screamed with terror at the sight of the three angry bears. She jumped out of bed then jumped out of the window and ran all the way home.

Goldilocks never sneaked into someone else's house ever again.

This is an example of . . .

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

• Resolution.

While they were away a girl came passed the cottage, her hair was golden and her name was Goldilocks. She was hungry and when she smelt the porridge she thought, “That smells good.” She looked through the window and saw the porridge on the table. “Perhaps I can help myself to some,” she thought. And so she opened the cottage door and sneaked in. “Hello,” she called, “Anyone in?” But there was no one home.

This is an example of . . .

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

• Resolution

Setting: the forest and Grandma's house. Narrative context: Little Red Riding Hood is traveling through the forest to visit her grandmother who is sick. Characters: Little Red Riding Hood, Big Bad Wolf, Grandma, the woodsman. Conflict: Big Bad Wolf tricks Little Red Riding Hood because he wants to eat her.

• Rising Action

• Exposition

• Falling action

• Inciting incident

Little Red Riding Hood encounters the wolf in the forest.

• Big Bad Wolf tricks her into telling him where Grandma lives.

• Little Red Riding Hood arrives at Grandma's house to find "Grandma" sick in bed (who is actually Big Bad Wolf disguised as Grandma after having eaten her).

• Inciting incident

• climax

• Rising action

• Falling action

Big Bad Wolf jumps out of bed, revealing his true identity and eating Little Red Riding Hood

• Resolution

• falling action

• Rising action

• climax

The woodsman appears to save the day, by cutting open the wolf's belly to let Grandma and Little Red Riding Hood out.

• Falling action

• Resolution

• climax

• Exposition