Lesson 1

Question 0

What is the atmosphere or feeling of a literary work. The setting can contribute to establishing the mood of a story?

Answer 0

Mood.

Question 1

What does the word setting mean?

Answer 1

The time and place in which a story takes place.

Question 2

What is the individuals whose thoughts and actions make up a story. The actions of the characters make up the events of a story.

Answer 2

Characters.

Question 3

What is the centeral, focal figure in a work of fiction?

Answer 3

Characters.

Question 4

What is a character or force that works against the protagonist, creating obstacles, a story that can have more than one antagonist?

Answer 4

Antagonist.

Question 5

What are characters that are fully developed with both positive qualities and flaws, more protagonist characters are round. What are they?

Answer 5

Round characters.

Question 6

What are characters that undergo change over the course change over the course of a story as a result of their experience?

Answer 6

Dynamic characters.

Question 7

What are characters that do not undergo any change from the story’s inception to its conclusion?

Answer 7

Static characters.

Question 8

What are characters that are stereotypical and one-dimensional, they are simple with limited personality traits, what are they?

Answer 8

Flat characters.

Question 9

What are methods used by an author to develop a character?

Answer 9

characterization can be direct in that the author clearly states what the character looks like, say and do, with indirect characterization, the author reveals a character by showing something about him or her.

Question 10

What is the arrangement or sequence of events within a story?

Answer 10

Plot.

Question 11

What is an obstacle, struggle or controversy that the protagonist must overcome?

Answer 11

Conflict.

Question 12

What is a conflict in which the protagonist has a problem with another character?

Answer 12

Character vs. character.

Question 13

What is a conflict in which the protagonist must struggle against a harsh environment or natural disaster?

Answer 13

Character vs. nature

Question 14

What is a conflict in which the protagonist is at its odds with an internal problem, such as fear, shyness, or guilt?

Answer 14

Character vs. self.

Question 15

What is a conflict in which the protagonist struggles with a force that seems beyond the characters control?

Answer 15

Character vs. fate.

Question 16

What is a second story within the main plot of a story?

Answer 16

Subplot.

Question 17

What’s in fiction, the plot normally begins with this. Characters are introduced and the background information is provided to better understand the events of the story?

Answer 17

Exposition.

Question 18

What’s the use of clues early in a story to give hints about the events that will happen later?

Answer 18

Foreshadowing.

Question 19

What’s a series of events and conflict involving characters that leads to the climax?

Answer 19

Rising action.

Question 20

What’s the turning point of a story, when the conflict is most intense, either internally or in an action?

Answer 20

Climax.

Question 21

What’s also referred to as an denouement, it is the action they follows the climax and leads to the resolution. What is it?

Answer 21

Falling action.

Question 22

What is the conclusion of the sooty when the conflict is finally resolved?

Answer 22

Resolution.

Question 23

What is an unexpected twitch in the resolution of the story? The story concludes in a way of opposite from what the reader may expect.

Answer 23

Situational irony.

Question 24

What’s the idea or ideas that weave the character, setting and events together?

Answer 24

Theme.

Question 25

What is the centeral, focal figure in a work of fiction?

Answer 25

Protagonist.