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What makes a story?
Short Answers Questions
Stories We've Read
100
The central problem in a story.
What is conflict?
100
the perspective of a story from a character in the story, marked by the pronoun "I".
What is first person point-of-view?
100
The most important part of a story
What is climax?
100
The "R" in the REC method stands for this.
What is respond?
100
What is the nickname of the sick boy in "The Scarlet Ibis"?
What is Doodle?
200
The events of a story.
What is plot?
200
Word choice or the order in which the words are arranged
What is diction?
200
The part of a story during which the plot become more complex.
What is rising action.
200
The "E" in the REC method stands for this
What is example?
200
Who gave the "I Have a Dream" speech?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
300
setting
What is where and when a story takes place?
300
The act of giving inanimate objects human characteristics.
What is personifcation?
300
The part of a story when the main action dies down.
What is falling action?
300
The "C" in the REC method stands for this.
What is comment?
300
Mme. Loisel loses this item at a party. It is also the title of the story.
What is "The Necklace"?
400
A comparison using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
400
The main character in a story
What is the protagonist?
400
The ending of a story. (NOT CONCLUSION)
What is resolution?
400
You should never begin your response with this word.
What is because?
400
Della cuts off her hair to get a present for Jim for Christmas. Jim sells this item
What is his watch?
500
The underlying message or meaning of a story.
What is theme?
500
The pattern of rhyming and rhythm in a line of poetry.
What is meter?
500
The beginning of a story where the characters are established and the setting is introduced.
What is exposition?
500
Short answer questions are worth this many points on the TAKS.
What is three?
500
The "Cask of the Amatillado" was written by this American gothic author.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?