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Short Story Review
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Review prior to test on story telling elements in short stories
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1
Teenage Wasteland and Rules of the Game are examples of stories with significant _____________
Motif
Generation Gap
Point of View
Male Main Character
2
A character that does not change in a story is
Boring
Interesting
Dynamic
Static
3
What element "drives" the plot?
Setting
Climax
Exposition
Conflict
4
In third person omniscient point of view, the narrator sees...
into the mind of the main character
only what happens to him/herself
into any character's mind
into the mind of the reader
5
The events leading up to the point of greatest tension in the story are known as
Rising Action
Setting
Falling Action
Climax
6
If you wrote using "he" but only got in the head of your main character, the POV would be
Second Person
Third Person Omniscient
Third Person Limited
First Person
7
"I could not stand to see her hurting" is an example of a narrator using ______ point of view.
Second Person
Third Person Omniscient
Third Person Limited
First Person
8
The Most Dangerous Game includes ___________ in that the hunter (Rainsford) becomes the hunted.
theme
irony
symbolism
metaphor
9
Which is NOT an element of setting?
Time
Mood
Character
Place
10
Symbolism must involve some type of ________________ that _______________ something else.
person; hates
object; represents
thing; replaces
object; cannot be
11
A motif is like a symbol, except...
it has to be red
it doesn't involve an object
it is repeated over and over
it has nothing to do with the theme
12
What part of the plot establishes the conflict?
Rising Action
Inciting Event
Climax
Resolution
13
What character and type is one that changes?
Roger; dynamic
Roger; static
Cal; static
Cal; dynamic
14
This is the moment in the story where the main character must take action or make a decision.
Falling Action
Climax
Rising Action
Conflict
15
Time, Place, Mood, Weather, Cultural Details make up ___________________
Conflict
Setting
Plot
Exposition
16
Women wearing corsets would give us a clue into which aspect of setting?
Place
Time
Mood
Cultural Details
17
In The Most Dangerous Game, the climax is when Rainsford...
kills Ivan
sleeps in the most comfortable bed
kills Zaroff
has to jump off the cliff
18
What symbolic element is significant in "The Fly"?
the inkpot
the chair
the fly
the desk
19
"You don't know me. You don't know me at all." is a rare example of what point of view?
Third Person Omniscient
Third Person Limited
Second Person
First Person
20
Human vs. Human, Human vs. Nature, Human vs. Self are examples of ________________
Types of Conflict
Strange Fights
Types of Climax
Types of Inciting Event
21
What element of setting is most significant in "Cask of Amontillado"?
Time
Mood
Weather
Cultural Details
22
A topic tells us what the story is about. The THEME tells us
where the topic lives
what the moral of the story is
what the author intends us to know
who the character is
23
A theme might be: "Love changes everything." What could the topic be?
Love
Violence
Need
Family
24
When the setting is established and the inciting event occurs, it is known collectively as the
Resolution
Rising Action
Exposition
Beginning
25
Denouement is a fancy word that also means...
Resolution
Ending
Falling Action
Exposition