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Elements of Fiction
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The time, place, and cultural context of a story.
What is the setting?
100

The most important moment in a story; usually a main character changes after this point.

What is the climax?

100

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

What figurative language is used in the sentence above?

What is a simile?

100

What is the term for finding quotes and using them to strengthen a claim?

What is textual evidence?

100

Resolution, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution.

What are the elements of plot?

200
The feeling the reader experiences when reading a text.
What is the mood?
200
The conclusion, or end to a story, during which all conflicts are resolved.
What is the resolution?
200

The message about life or lesson the reader is supposed to learn from a text

What is theme?

200

The point of view where the narrator is the main character in the story.

What is 1st person point of view? 

200

What types of questions do not need an answer?

What are rhetorical questions? 

300

An author's description of a character's personality through various methods such as diction, actions, etc.

What is characterization?

300
The point in the story when suspense and interest begin to build.
What is the rising action?
300

"The whiteness stretched for miles and miles. The large expanse of land stretched for what seemed like acres. The only sound that could be heard was the wind whistling across the tundra," espressed what kind of mood?

What is lonely, intimidating, haunting?

300

"Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry; don’t walk barehead in the hot sun; cook pumpkin fritters in very hot sweet oil..." The tone of this passage from "Girl" is...

What is bossy, controlling, condescending?

300

The two words that make up the setting in a story.

What is time and place or when and where?

400

Conflict with oneself

What is internal conflict?

400
The event(s) after the turning point in the story, when conflicts begin to be resolved.
What is the falling action?
400
I am fed up with this! Is anyone capable of anything around here? I asked for one thing! One thing! The tone of this passage is ________.
What is frustrated, aggravated, annoyed?
400

Name the point of view in which the narrator (not a character in the story) knows all the thoughts and feelings of all characters.

What is 3rd person omniscient?

400

"Treat others the way you want to be treated" is an example of what element of fiction?

What is a theme?

500
The beginning of a story, during which the characters and setting are introduced.
What is the exposition?
500

the author's feelings about a subject expressed through carefully chosen diction

What is tone?

500

The series of events that make up the story.

What is the plot?

500

The character or thing going against the main character is called this.

What is the antagonist?

500

"I was terrified that I would fall off the cliff."

Which point of view is this?

What is 1st person point of view?