MCAS

Question 1

Exposition

Answer 1

a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.

Question 2

Setting

Answer 2

the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place.

Question 3

Conflict

Answer 3

a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one.

Question 4

Internal Conflict

Answer 4

is a struggle within a person’s mind over a problem or question. That’s why it’s called internal.

Question 5

External conflict

Answer 5

External conflict refers to conflict between the main character and any external force, such as a villain, government, or nature.

Question 6

Rising Action

Answer 6

The rising action is the second of six essential plot elements, which comes right after the opening of a story, otherwise known as the exposition

Question 7

Turning Point

Answer 7

a time at which a decisive change in a situation occurs, especially one with beneficial results.

Question 8

Falling Action

Answer 8

Falling action is everything that takes place immediately after the climax.

Question 9

Protagonist

Answer 9

the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.

Question 10

Antagonist

Answer 10

a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.

Question 11

Climax

Answer 11

the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex.

Question 12

Tone

Answer 12

the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.

Question 13

Theme

Answer 13

the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person’s thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.

Question 14

Mood

Answer 14

a temporary state of mind or feeling.

Question 15

Author’s purpose

Answer 15

An author’s purpose is his reason for or intent in writing.

Question 16

Inform

Answer 16

give (someone) facts or information; tell.

Question 17

Entertain

Answer 17

provide (someone) with amusement or enjoyment.

Question 18

Persuade

Answer 18

cause (someone) to do something through reasoning or argument.

Question 19

Noun

Answer 19

a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things (common noun), or to name a particular one of these (proper noun).

Question 20

Verb

Answer 20

a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.

Question 21

Adjective

Answer 21

a word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.

Question 22

Adverb

Answer 22

a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. (e.g., gently, quite, then, there ).

Question 23

Pronoun

Answer 23

a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., I, you ) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g., she, it, this ).

Question 24

Conjunction

Answer 24

a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause (e.g. and, but, if ).

Question 25

Preposition

Answer 25

a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause, as in “the man on the platform,” “she arrived after dinner,” “what did you do it for ?”.

Question 26

Interjection

Answer 26

an abrupt remark, made especially as an aside or interruption.