Fiction review questions

A comparison between two things that does not use “like” or “as".

The struggle between two or more opposing forces.

The part of a story where everything settles down and moves toward the resolution.

The time and place in which a story unfolds. It can help set the mood of the story.

The leading character struggles against ideas, rules, or customs of the culture or government.

The end of the story, when the characters move forward.

All the ways an author shows us what a character is like (LEAST) -

The turning point of a story.

The message in a story that can apply to everyone.

The main character struggles with another person, or a group struggles with another group.

The use of descriptive, picture-making words to create mental pictures.

A struggle within one’s self.

The first thing that shows us what the conflict of the story is.

The use of words that are spelled like the sound they make.

A struggle with a force outside of one’s self.

When the speaker says one thing, but means another.

The reader is kept wondering what will happen next.

When the reader or a character expects one thing to happen, but something else happens instead.

An over exaggeration for effect.

The leading character struggles with his/her own decisions, ideas of right and wrong, choices.

When the author attributes human characteristics to a non-living thing.

A comparison that uses “like” or “as”.

Conversation among characters.

All the main events in the story.

The first part of the story; the reader meets the characters and learns about the setting.

The author drops subtle hints about future events (or the outcome) before they happen.