Elements of Fiction
Elements of Fiction 2
Elements of Fiction 3
Short Stories
Hodgepodge
100
The time, place, and cultural context of a story.
What is the setting?
100
The most important moment in a story; usually a main character changes after this point.
What is the climax?
100

The feeling that the author is trying to create in a work of literature.

What is mood?

100

The literary term that most represents the ending of "The Necklace."

What is irony?

100

Resolution, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution.

What are the elements of plot?

200
The feeling the reader experiences when reading a text.
What is the mood?
200
The conclusion, or end to a story, during which all conflicts are resolved.
What is the resolution?
200

Latoya was buried in books; she studied all day, and all night. This is an example of _______ characterization.

What is indirect characterization?

200

This is the tone of the short story "The Most Dangerous Game."

What is suspenseful?

200

The acronym "RACE" helps us answer constructed response questions.  It stands for

What is Restate, Answer, Cite, Explain

300
An author's description of a character's personality.
What is characterization?
300
The point in the story when suspense and interest begin to build.
What is the rising action?
300
The whiteness stretched for miles and miles. The large expanse of land stretched for what seemed like acres. The only sound that could be heard was the wind whistling across the tundra. The mood conveyed is ____________.
What is lonely, intimidating, haunting?
300

The problem that the main character experiences is referred to as this.

What is conflict?

300

This type of character grows, learns or changes during the course of the story.

What is a dynamic character?

400

"The roses sparkled like rubies in the early morning sunlight," is an example of this type of figurative language.

What is a simile?

400
The event(s) after the turning point in the story, when conflicts begin to be resolved.
What is the falling action?
400

"Finding so many flying insects in this yard is frustrating since Frank furnished the flat with insecticide," is an example of this type of figurative language.

What is alliteration?

400

The types of conflict seen in the short story, "The Most Dangerous Game."

What is Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Man, Man vs. Himself?

400

The narrator is a character in the story telling the story from only their perspective.

What is First Person?

500
The beginning of a story, during which the characters and setting are introduced.
What is the exposition?
500
A recurring object or idea that leads toward development of the theme.
What is motif?
500
The author's main message; the author's opinion about humanity.
What is the theme?
500

This is a recurring motif in the short story "The Scarlet Ibis."

What is death?

500

"Nancy Lee Johnson was a colored girl, a few years out of the South. But seldom did her high-school classmates think of her as colored. She was smart, pretty and brown, and fitted in well with the life of the school" is an example of this element of fiction.

What is direct characterization?

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