1) The five basic elements of fiction include:
setting, characters, plot, theme, and point of view.
characters, resolution, realism, rising actions, and falling actions.
flashback, subplots, stereotypes, realism, and naturalism.
resolution, introduction, crisis, rising actions, and falling actions.
plot, flashback, crisis, stereotypes, and naturalism
2) An author relates via a(n) _____ what happens to characters in a fictional story.
chronology
era
epoch
plot
narrative
3) Answer True or False.
If fictional character Joe Brown creates a community garden in a neighborhood to both beautify it and provide fresh vegetables and fruits for residents and fictional character Charlie Alton tramples all of the emerging plants one night, Joe is the antagonist and Charlie is the protagonist.
False
True
4) Answer True or False.
Since Charlie makes a turnabout, he is a static character.
True
False
5) Answer True or False.
At the beginning of the story, Joe believes in the goodness of other humans and even after Charlie ruins his garden, he does not change his mind-Joe is a dynamic character.
False
True
6) Answer True or False.
Though the readers know all about Joe and Charlie and what they think, they know little about Cathy, a neighborhood girl who helps with the garden. Cathy is a flat character.
False
True
7) Both Joe and Charlie are ____ characters, or ones that are the most critical to the story.
secondary
main
absent
minor
stereotype
8) Answer True or False.
If in a fictional story about Joe's attempt to create a successful community garden, the author writes, "Generations later, residents of Oak Cliff sang the praises of Joe Browne for his heroic efforts to improve the lives of the locals,"a reader might recognize the sentence as the resolution or denouement.
False
True
9) Answer True or False.
If the author chose to open his fictional story with the scene in which Charlie is stomping on the fledgling plants before relating how Joe planted the garden, he used in media res.
False
True
10) Answer True or False.
Joe's struggles with Charlie are an example of internal conflict, while Charlie's thoughts about why he wants to destroy the plants that will give hope to others are an example of external conflict.
False
True
11) Answer True or False.
If Charlie makes a turnabout during the resolution and begins helping Joe with the community garden, then the author has written a deus ex machina.
True
False
12) The buildup of tension in fiction is termed ______________.
universal theme
crisis
flashback
milieu
suspense
13) If at the beginning of the story about Joe and his garden, you read the sentence, "Though Joe had no doubt that he would be successful in his work to create a success," you could say that the author was employing ___________.
a cliffhanger
a theme
impressionism
flashback
foreshadowing
14) If you read the sentence, "Joe's community garden was beautiful-it was like an oasis in a desert of defeat and destruction surrounded as it was by a burned building and stores and homes imprisoned by their burglar bars," you could say that the author was employing ___________.
expressionism
romanticism
resolution
impressionism
climax