Short Story Lesson

What is the inciting incident of a story?

• The most exciting part

• The resolution

• The first problem

• None of the above

What is the Rising Action of a story?

• The most exciting part

• The lesson learned

• The action leading up to the climax

• The end, solution

What is the Falling Action of a story?

• The lesson learned

• The end, solution

• The most exciting part

• The action after the climax, leading to the resolution

What is the Resolution of a story?

• The lesson learned

• The time, place, mood

• The end, solution of a story

• None of the above

What is the Theme of a story?

• The end, solution

• The lesson learned

• Time, place, mood

• None of the above

What is 1st person point of view?

• Story is told by an outsider and uses He/She

• Story is told by the main character and uses I

• Comparison with like/as

• Exaggeration

What is the setting of a story?

• The main character

• The lesson learned

• Time, place and mood of a story

• None of the above

What is the Climax of a story?

• The lesson learned

• The end, solution

• Time, place, mood

• The most exciting part of the story

Why are Geoff and Lynne in the headmaster's office?

• Geoff steals all the books by William Bradburie from the school library

• Geoff admits to the headmaster that he might have accidentally taken the idea from Bradburie's book which he read 3 years ago

• Lynne reports to the headmaster about Geoff cheating in the short story competition

• Mr. Velos wants Geoff and Lynne to represent the school in the upcoming short story competition

This is Lynne's feeling after she reads the story written by William Bradburie. What are the reasons?

• She thinks Geoff simply copies the story for the competition

• She is angry at the circus keeper for letting the elephant escape

• She discovers that Bradburie's story is similar to Geoff's