Story Vocabulary
What do you call the time and place that a story takes place?
The setting
What word means enthusiastic and eager?
excited
What word means exactly alike?
identical
The main characters in this story are:
a. the real bear, the tree, and Sukey
b. Pa, Ma, and the bear
c. Laura, Mary, and Ma
d. Pa, Ma, and Laura
d. Pa, Ma, and Laura
Both Ma and Pa are:
a. tall
b. well-educated
c. artistic
d. brave
d. brave
What do you call the chain of events in a story?
The plot
What word means to disappear quickly?
vanish
What word means from here? (homeland)
native
Ma and Laura went outside:
a. to look for Pa
b. to put the sheep back in the pen
c. to milk the cow
d. to check Pa's traps
c. to milk the cow
When Ma and Laura went outside, what was Laura surprised to see? (what did she think she saw)
the dark shape of Sukey standing at the barnyard gate
What do you call the character or force that is in conflict with the protagonist?
The antagonist
What word means quiet and chill?
Which word means not alike?
dissimilar
What did Ma do when she realized she had just slapped a bear?
She told Laura to walk back to the house.
As Pa was walking home through the woods:
a. he saw Sukey the cow
b. he became so tired that he lay down and fell asleep
c. he saw what he thought was a big black bear in the middle of the road
d. he held his gun tightly, ready to shoot any animal that came near him.
c. he saw what he thought was a big black bear in the middle of the road
What do you call the main character in a story?
The Protagonist
What word means to come from some place else?
foreign
Which word means to make things smaller?
reduce
Pa said he must go to town to :
a. to trade the furs of the animals he had trapped in the winter
b. because he needed a change after being cooped up all winter.
c. buy food supplies like flour and fat
d. buy seed to plant in the spring
a. to trade the furs of the animals he had trapped in the winter
The story ends with:
a. Pa promising to build a stronger barn in spring
b. ma asking pa never to go to town without his gun
c. Laura deciding to live in a big city when she grows up
d. Laura feeling very safe and protected by her parents.
d. Laura feeling very safe and protected by her parents
What do you call the problems that arise that cause the characters to struggle at reaching their goals?
Complications
What word means to make things bigger?
Enlarge
What word means to come into sight, or become visible?
appear
The author describes life in the "Big Woods" as:
a. a little hard and very happy
b. very frightening and a little unhappy
c. very boring and dull
d. very easy and quite comfortable
a. a little hard and very happy
Ma and Pa knew how to:
a. make candy and calico
b. be calm even when frightened
c. fight off bears with their bare hands
d. see very well in the dark
b. be calm even when frightened.