The exposition of the story (the beginning) introduces the characters, the _______________, and the basic situation.
What is the setting
100
What genre is a Fiction story
Often includes witches, kings, queens, princes,
princesses, giants, fairies, or other
magical creatures
Events or items occur in sets of three
There is a happy ending
What is a Fairy Tale
100
Cinderella and the Prince lived happily ever after.
What is the resolution of Cinderella
100
This is the character who works against the main character in a story.
What is the antagonist
100
What is the sequence of events that shows how the conflict develops and is finally resolved called?
What is plot
200
The plot of a story is the sequence of events that show how the ______________ develops and is resolved. (Hint it has two main types and five sub-types)
What is the conflict
200
What Genre is a fiction story
Not a real story or real characters
Events and setting could actually happen in real
life even though the story is made up
Characters have real-life problems
What is realistic fiction
200
Sequence of events of the story
What is Plot
200
Hints about what will happen later in the story is known as
What is foreshadowing
200
What is the struggle between two characters or between a character and an outside force called?
What is external conflict
300
The most exciting moment in the plot is called the __________________. It is the turning point where the story can go either way.
What is the climax
300
What type of genre is a fiction story
Story may be set in future
May involve technology, new inventions, space,
science
Setting is in an imaginary world or place
.
What is Science Fiction
300
What part of the plot is the following:
The Prince tries the glass slipper on Cinderella and it fits..
What is the Climax
300
A type of conflict that occurs inside the character (dealing with emotions, morality, faith)
What is Internal Conflict
300
The exposition explains what two key things?
What is the setting and main characters
400
During what part of the plot does the conflict wind down in intensity?
What is the falling action
400
What type of Genre is Nonfiction
Author tells real events about someone else’s life,
not their own
Author is not in the story
Reader’s learn facts about someone’s life
What is Biography
400
Can also be referred to as the OMG, the most exciting part of the story, the turning point
What is the Climax
400
A literary term that is an interruption in the time sequence of a story that disrupts the present action of the story to reveal an event that took place at an earlier time.
What is a flashback?
400
Literature that has made up characters and made up stories
What is Fiction
500
At the end of the story, where the conflict is fully resolved is another name for
The resolution
500
What Genre is Fiction story
Many originated in ancient Greece
Characters are often gods or goddesses
Story explains (in an untrue way) how things in nature came to be
What is Myth
500
Cinderella, ugly stepsisters, evil stepmother & the prince, in a far away land
What is the exposition of Cinderella
500
In a story is its underlying message, or 'big idea.' In other words, what critical belief about life is the author trying to convey in the writing of a novel, play, short story or poem?
What is theme
500
Name all five parts of a plot
What is the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution