Chapter 8 /Plot Development/Character Types-Vocabulary Quiz

_________________ is the way events work together to create excitement in a story.

This is called the peak of a plot pyramid. It's the most exciting moment of a story, where both people and events change.

Classic plots are stories that have the same basic sequence of events and appear in many stories throughout history. Classic plots can come from

An author composes a plot piece by piece with stanzas in a story, but scenes in a poem,

What do we call any actor in a story?

The resolution occurs in the beginning of the story, sets the scene and explains what's going on

This part of the plot includes the drama and is a series of events which lead to the climax. This part of the plot diagram is called the rising action.

The five elements of a plot are

In this part of the story, all of the tension of the plot is resolved.

When you create a sereies of drawings that represent a plot. It is called _______

A simile for conversation would be

Language that tells the readers how things are, look, sound, or feel is __________.

Can a character's laziness change the plot of the story?

In the story Joey and Dad start to cut up when he was surprising them with the green pine tree air freshner, and Mr. Watson says, "It's the pinnacle of Western Civilization," and Joey says, " It's the pea knuckle of Western Civilization!' What does the pinnacle mean?

When Kenny talks to dad about him growing a mustache, dad tells Kenny that he has seniority over him in the bathroom. What does the word seniority mean?

And I can tell by that intelligent look on your faced, Mrs. Watson, that you have grasped that that speaker is not placed in the rear deck haphazardly. What do the underlined words mean?

Can something as small as a single sentence affect the course of a whole plot?

Select the 2 answers that make this question accurate.

The things a character does reveals what?

We never learn more about a character based on their reactions to another character.

The antagonist doesn't come into conflict with the protagonist of a story.

When the plot changes, we discover how a character reacts.