Parts of a Story
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100
This is the part of a story that relieves the tension of the story.
What is the climax?
100
This author's mother, stepmother and wife all died of consumption.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
100
This detective let Jimmy Valentine go free.
Who is Ben Price?
100
This character dragged Roger to her apartment.
Who is Mrs. Jones?
100
This is what Roger tried to steal.
What is a purse?
200
These are the two key things that are revealed in the exposition of a story.
What are the setting and the characters?
200
Both of these authors are from the South.
Who are Flannery O'Connor and Edgar Allan Poe?
200
This character said, "I, too, have done things".
Who is Mrs. Jones?
200
This character hunts human beings.
Who is General Zaroff?
200
This state is where Bailey and his family were headed on vacation.
What is Florida?
300
This is the part of a story where the characters settle in to their "new normal".
What is the resolution?
300
Langston Hughes went to college with this man, the first African-American Supreme Court justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
300
This character is a torturer.
Who is Ivan?
300
This character is locked in a closet.
Who is Margot?
300
This disease causes profuse bleeding from your pores.
What is the Red Death?
400
These are all the events of a story from exposition to resolution.
What is the plot?
400
This author was a good friend of Ray Harryhausen.
Who is Ray Bradbury?
400
Its Avatar appears at Prince Prospero's masquerade.
Who is the Red Death?
400
This character fell off a yacht.
Who is Rainsford?
400
This is a type of story with a fully developed theme but shorter and less elaborate than a novel.
What is a short story?
500
An author has to have one of these in his or her story in order to create tension.
What is a conflict?
500
Ray Bradbury was a good friend of this creator of Star Trek.
Who is Gene Roddenberry?
500
She was the primary motivator in Jimmy Valentine's transformation.
Who is Annabel Adams?
500
This character said, "No pleasure but meanness".
Who is The Misfit?
500
Both Flannery O'Connor and Langston Hughes faced this, but for different reasons.
What is discrimination?
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