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Grade 8 Story Elements
What is conflict?
  1. Only internal struggles such as sadness
  2. Only external struggles such as a fist fight
  3. Any struggle between opposing forces of any kind
Grade 8 Story Elements
An imaginary person in a work of fiction:
  1. stereotype
  2. narrator
  3. foil
  4. character
Grade 8 Story Elements
Which of the following could be an example of internal conflict?
  1. A character is attacked by jealous girlfriend
  2. A character agonizes over whether or not to cheat on a test
  3. A character is injured by a tornado
  4. All of the above
Grade 8 Story Elements
A recurring theme or element that appears in more than one literary work is a:
  1. coincidence
  2. refrain
  3. motive
  4. motif
Grade 8 Story Elements
Events leading to the conclusion.
  1. Inciting Incident
  2. Exposition
  3. Rising Action
  4. Climax
  5. Falling Action
  6. Conclusion
Grade 8 Story Elements CCSS: CCRA.R.3, RL.8.3

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Which sentence is from the story's exposition?
  1. No spectator, however just, could have helped feeling a pang of pity for the wretched man who stood unconscious of imminent doom. . . .
  2. Not only had this black-hearted knocker on floors a pleasant voice, but, in addition, a pleasing exterior.
  3. There were three distinct stages in the evolution of Annette Brougham's attitude toward the knocking in the room above.
  4. At this the Brute emerged from his fortifications and removing his pipe from his mouth, jerked his chair out into the open.
Grade 8 Story Elements
Which of the following are types of external conflict?
  1. man vs man
  2. man vs. nature
  3. man vs. society
  4. all of the above
Grade 8 Story Elements
Any background information the reader needs to understand the story
  1. Inciting Incident
  2. Exposition
  3. Rising Action
  4. Climax
  5. Falling Action
  6. Conclusion
Grade 8 Story Elements
Foreshadowing is a literary device used by many authors to:
  1. advance the plot
  2. describe a character
  3. create suspense
  4. resolve conflict
Grade 8 Story Elements
Talk between or among character is dialogue.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 8 Story Elements
What is the setting?
  1. place and time
  2. characters
  3. plot
  4. noun
  5. conflict
Grade 8 Story Elements
What is plot?
Grade 8 Story Elements
The placement of story events in order:
  1. stereotype
  2. sequencing
  3. setting
  4. conflict
Grade 8 Story Elements
The perspective from which a story is told:
  1. point of view
  2. flashback
  3. setting
  4. theme
Grade 8 Story Elements
The main character or hero in a story:
  1. foil
  2. antagonist
  3. character
  4. protagonist
Grade 8 Story Elements
The voice and implied speaker who tells the story:
  1. protagonist
  2. narrator
  3. character
  4. antagonist
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