Plot/Story Elements
Character Traits
Conflict
Theme
Mystery
100
What is the most exciting or suspenseful part of a story called?

What is the Climax

100

What is a Protagonist?

What is the main character in a story, often the hero. 

100

Name the two types of conflict.

What is internal and external conflict. 

100

What is theme?

What is the central meaning of a story. 
100

Name the theme of Three Little Pigs. 

What is hard work and teamwork. 

200

What is the exposition?

What is the beginning of the story where the characters and setting are introduced.

200

What is an antagonist? 

What is the character who is working against the protagonist, often a villain. 



200

What type of conflict is it when the problem is occurring within the characters own mind?

What is internal conflict.

200

What are two examples of common themes?

Answer may vary... 

Family
Love
Nature
Hard work
Teamwork 

200

Where is the setting of Flush (location and season).

What is the Florida Keys in the summer. 

300

In the Three Little Pigs, what was the Rising Action of the story?

What is the Three Little Pigs build their houses in the woods. 

300

In Flush, who is the Protagonist?

Noah Underwood

300

What is external conflict?

What is a conflict occurring with a character and an outside force. 

300

Name one of the main themes in Flush?

What is nature, family, friendship, teamwork. 

300

What is the Rising Action in Flush?

Noah's Dad sinking the Coral Queen. 

400

What is the Falling Action in the Three Little Pigs? 

What is the third little pig building his house out of brick. 

400

In the Three Little Pigs, who is the antagonist?

What is the Big Bad Wolf. 

400

In the Three Little Pigs, the main conflict was the Big Bad Wolf blowing down the houses, what type of conflict is this an example of?

What is external conflict. 

400

Kim’s diet was terrible. All she ate was chips and sweets and jelly sandwiches on white bread.  She was overweight and she was always tired. When her doctor told her that she felt bad  because of what she was eating, Kim was amazed. She didn’t realize that she had so much  power to make herself feel better. Kim stopped eating junk food and started eating fruits and  vegetables. In a few weeks she felt like a new person.

What is the theme of this story?

What is taking responsibility for your health.

400

State an example that you know (not from Flush or the Three Little Pigs) of a Protagonist and Antagonist.  

*Must label which one is which

Answers will vary

500

Name all five parts of the Plot Diagram.

What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. 

500
In Flush, Dusty Muleman is seen as the bad guy of the story causing problems on the Coral Queen, what type of character is he?

What is antagonist. 

500

When Noah's Dad sinks the Coral Queen in Flush, what type of conflict is this an example of?

What is external. 

500

Ryan’s mother was trying to learn to cook. She was not very good at it, though. One night she  burned the casserole. Another night she scalded the soup. Ryan and his father did their best to  eat what she put in front of them, though. “She will get better,” Ryan’s father told Ryan. “We  have to encourage her so that she will not give up.” One afternoon Ryan’s mother put too much  baking soda in the cookies and they were so bitter that Ryan had to spit a bite of cookie out into  his napkin when his mother wasn’t looking. “I am sorry that I am not a good cook,” his mother  told him. “That is okay,” Ryan said. “The important thing is that you keep working on it, and  then you will get better.”

What is theme of this story?

What is honesty. 

500

"Should I stay, or should I go to the basketball game?"

What type of conflict is this an example of?

What is internal conflict.