Elements of Fiction
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Snakes and More
Seventh Grade
Pigs and a Jacket
100
This is the difference between plot and theme.
What is plot is the series of events in a story and what is theme is the message or "fortune cookie" moment in the story?
100
This is the definition of climax.
What is the point of greatest interest in a story?
100
The author of Rikki Tiki Tavi is this person.
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
100
The setting for "Seventh Grade" occurs in this city and state.
What is Fresno, California?
100
This is one static character in "The Three Little Pigs."
Who is the big, bad wolf?
200
This is the difference between dynamic and static characters.
What is a dynamic character changes and grows throughout the story and a static character stays the same?
200
The difference between external and internal conflict is this.
What is external conflict is when the character struggles against an outside force and internal conflict is when the character struggles with an inner conflict?
200
Three facts you learned about snakes in "The Dinner Party" and "Rikki Tiki Tavi."
What is snakes like milk, snakes have ribs in their necks, and snakes don't like mongooses?
200
A dynamic character in "Seventh Grade" is this person for this reason.
Who is Victor and Victor changes in order to get to know Teresa?
200
The theme of "The Scholarship Jacket."
What is work hard and you will succeed and don't give into pressure (being controlled)?
300
The names for the beginning and ending of the plot.
What is the exposition and resolution?
300
These two parts of the plot occur before and after the climax.
What is rising action and falling action?
300
The setting for both "The Dinner Party" and "Rikki Tiki Tavi" take place in this country.
What is India?
300
This is the internal conflict that Victor has in "Seventh Grade."
What is fighting with himself in order to figure out how to have courage to ask out Teresa plus how to act as a young man?
300
Marta Salinas is the author for this story.
What is "The Scholarship Jacket?"
400
This is what genre means.
What is a category in which a book is classified in a library?
400
The genre for a book that might supply facts about animals is this genre.
What is non-fiction?
400
The theme in "Rikki Tiki Tavi" is this.
What is being brave, caring for family, etc.?
400
This is the resolution of "Seventh Grade."
What is Teresa asking Victor to help her with French?
400
This is the plot of "The Scholarship Jacket."
What is answers will vary?
500
This is the difference between a protagonist and antagonist.
What is a protagonist is the main character in a story and what is an antagonist is the force working against the main character?
500
The difference between first and third person point of view is this.
What is first person is told by a character in the story and third person is told by the narrator?
500
The exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution for "The Dinner Party" is this.
What is exposition (meeting guests at party), rising action (hostess notices snake), climax (guests notice snake), falling action (snake caught), and expostion (naturalist explains women are as strong as men)?
500
These are clues that tell us that "Seventh Grade" takes place in California.
What is answers will vary?
500
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