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Story Elements
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The tools used to create a successful story.
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What is irony?
Saying the opposite of your meaning to express your meaning.
A Greek literary technique.
The act of smoothing out wrinkles in clothes.
The usage of iron tools.
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What is a motive?
The setting of a specific action.
How a character completes an action.
A characters backstory.
The reason for a characters actions.
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What is a character?
Reasons for actions.
How an author reveals personality.
Qualities, attitudes, and values.
The people or animals who take part in the story.
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What is an inciting event?
The story's introduction.
The event that reveals the central conflict.
The turning point for the story.
The set up for the story's ending.
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What is tone?
A small noise used to signify something.
The general attitude or character of the story.
The story's time and place.
The story's atmosphere.
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What is a setting?
A story's atmosphere.
The props for the film version of a story.
The time and place of a story.
The sequence of events.
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What is characterization?
A characters likes and dislikes.
A characters qualities, attitudes, and values.
The reason for a characters actions.
The way the author introduces a characters personality.
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What is a conflict?
An internal problem plaguing the character.
The main character opposing the protagonist.
An argument.
The struggle between opposing forces in a story.
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What is a falling action?
How the conflict is settled.
The event setting up the story's ending.
The point at which the characters are at their lowest.
The end of the story.
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What is a climax?
How the conflict is settled.
The event setting up the story's ending.
The event that reveals the central conflict.
The Highest point of action
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What is a resolution?
The reveal of a secret to the reader.
The defeat of the antagonist.
How the conflict is settled.
The event setting up the story's ending
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What is a rising action?
An event setting up the story's ending.
The event that reveals a story's central conflict.
An event to develop a story's central conflict.
The turning point in the story.
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What is first-person point of view?
Perspective from a protagonist's viewpoint.
Perspective from a characters viewpoint.
Perspective from an antagonist's viewpoint.
Someone telling you what you are doing or have done.
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What is an internal conflict?
A conflict between two forces inside a building.
A conflict in the form of a characters opposing feelings.
A character getting migraines.
A conflict between a character and an outside force
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What is a theme?
A story's central message or insight.
How a story is told.
The time and place of a story.
A story's atmosphere.
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What is a trait?
The stories atmosphere.
The reason for a characters actions.
A genetically determined characteristic.
A characters qualities, attitude, and values.
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What is a plot?
The sequence of events in a story.
An story important area of land in a story.
The people or animals involved in a story.
The main conflict of a story.
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What is third-person point of view?
Perspective from the protagonist's viewpoint.
Perspective from a character in the story.
Perspective from a narrator outside the story.
Someone telling you what you are doing or have done.
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What is external conflict?
A conflict between a character and an outside force.
A fist fight.
Internal conflict expressed outwardly.
A conflict occurring outside.
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What is exposition?
A characters backstory.
An introduction to a character and their situation.
A indication of a future event.
The introduction to a story.
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What is a mood?
The sequence of events in a story.
Where the story is set.
A story's atmosphere.
The main message of a story.
