Canadian Grade 10 English Short Stories Unit

Question 1

What is an Exposition in a plot?

Answer 1

Introduces characters, setting, situation to intrigue readers’ interest.

Question 2

What is an inciting incident in a plot?

Answer 2

Conflict that starts the action

Question 3

What is conflict in a plot?

Answer 3

Conflict is a struggle between opposing forces, usually between a protagonist and the antagonist.

Question 4

What are the types of conflict?

Answer 4

Person vs. self (internal struggle)
Person vs. nature/supernatural (external struggle)
Person vs. society (external struggle)

Question 5

What is the rising action in a plot?

Answer 5

Series of complications or development of the conflict.

Question 6

What is a climax in a plot?

Answer 6

The climax is the turning point of the story, and it’s the most exciting part.

Question 7

What is the falling action in a plot?

Answer 7

events that lead to resolution.

Question 8

What is resolution in a plot?

Answer 8

The outcome of conflict.

Question 9

Alliteration

Answer 9

The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words.

Example: sheep should sleep in a shed.

Question 10

Allusion

Answer 10

A figure of speech that makes a reference to, or representation of, a place, event, literary work, myth, or work of art, either directly or by implication.

Example: My math teacher is he who must not be named.

Question 11

Couplet

Answer 11

A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem.

Example: I saw a little blue bird I didn’t even say a word.

Question 12

Hyperbole

Answer 12

A figure of speech involving exaggeration.

Example: I’m drowning in paper work

Question 13

Imagery

Answer 13

The use of language to invoke a sensory experience (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch).

Example: My head is pounding like a drum

Question 14

Irony

Answer 14

A contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant or between what happens and what is expected to happen in life and in literature.

In verbal irony, characters say the opposite of what they mean.

In situational irony, the opposite of what is expected occurs.

In dramatic irony, a character speaks in ignorance of a situation or event known to the audience or to the other characters.

Example: A police station gets robbed.

Question 15

Oxymoron

Answer 15

The combination of normally-contradictory (opposite) terms.

Example: Old news.

Question 16

Paradox

Answer 16

A situation in which something seems both true and false.

Example: Deep down, you’re really shallow.