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Story Elements
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General story elements.
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What is a simile?
A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as."
The time and place of the action.
Complications in the story.
What you do when you feel happy.
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What is the exposition?
The people in the story.
Introduces characters and presents the setting and conflict.
Action that complicates the situation.
Where the Spanish were trying to convert people.
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What is plot?
The growing tension and excitement felt by a reader.
The time and place of the action.
A series of events that a story follows.
The sound it makes when you drop a potato.
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What is conflict?
The time and place of the action.
The outcome of a story.
The struggle between opposing forces
A movie with Nicholas Cage.
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What is the theme of a story?
The overall lesson or moral that you learn.
The people the story is about.
Things that happen in a story.
The feelings you get when you buy toilet paper.
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What is inference?
The moral or lesson of the story.
A rug that the Dude took from a rich guy.
The people in a story.
A logical guess based on information.
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What is setting?
The people that the story is about.
The indentation you make in the couch.
Complications that intensify a problem.
The time and place of the action.
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What is suspense?
How you feel when choosing grapes.
Where the author introduces the setting and characters.
Complications that intensify the problem.
The growing tension and excitement felt by the reader.
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What are characters in a story?
The time and place of the action.
The lesson you learn from a story.
You had better not click this one.
The people, animals, or creatures in a story.
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What is rising action?
Complications that intensify a problem.
The people in the story.
Every Sylvester Stallone movie ever.
Things that happen that start to bring the story to a close.
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What is the resolution in a story?
The final outcome of a conflict.
What I make every year at New Year's.
Where the characters and setting are introduced.
The most exciting part of the plot.
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Define "cite evidence"
What all good CSIs do.
Provide specific information from a text.
Complications that intensify a problem.
A story's greatest moment of interest.
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What does climax mean?
The growing tension and excitement felt by a reader.
Where the characters and setting are introduced.
How a lumberjack scales trees.
A story’s moment of greatest interest.
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What is falling action?
When the story begins to draw to a close.
Seriously, why would you click this one?
