Short Story Quiz

Question 1

What is 1st person?

Answer 1

First person is a story written by the main character (uses I)

Question 2

What is 3rd person?

Answer 2

Third person is written by a narrator (uses they or there name)

Question 3

What are the 6 elements of a short story?

Answer 3

Plot, character, point of view, setting, theme, conflict

Question 4

What is the plot?

Answer 4

The plot is the sequence of events in a story or play. It is the authors arrangement of events to develop the basic idea

Question 5

What is the order of the plot plan

Answer 5

Introduction, inciting incident, rising action, crisis point, climax (top of the plot), falling action, resolution

Question 6

What is the setting?

Answer 6

The setting is the time and location in which is story takes place. In some stories the setting is very important and others aren’t.

Question 7

What are the 5 types of setting?

Answer 7

Place, time, weather conditions, social conditions, and mood or atmosphere

Question 8

What is the character?

Answer 8

The character is the information author gives the reader about the characters themselves. 

Question 9

4 ways to revel a character

Answer 9

Physical appearance, what they say think or dream, does or doesn’t, how they react

Question 10

⭐️What is the theme?

Answer 10

The theme is the Controlling idea or central inside. It is the authors meaning a main idea he’s trying to convey.

Question 11

What is the point of view?

Answer 11

The point of view is the angle from which the story is told (1st and 3rd person)

Question 12

What is the conflict?

Answer 12

The conflict is what move the plot forward

Question 13

What are the 5 types of conflict?

Answer 13

Man vs man
Man vs society
Man vs nature
Man vs himself
Man vs supernatural

Question 14

Who is the antagonist in Charles?

Answer 14

Charles

Question 15

Who is the antagonist in Priscilla and the wimps

Answer 15

Mighty monk

Question 16

What is the foreshadowing in Charles?

Answer 16

It has foreshadow when his dad asked him the name of the student with bad behavior. Laurie had to think about it (which means he’s probably making it up)

Question 17

Who is the protagonist in Charles?

Answer 17

Laurie

Question 18

Who is the protagonist and Priscilla and the wimps

Answer 18

Priscilla

Question 19

What is the surprise ending in Charles

Answer 19

The story of surprise ending because nobody was expecting Laurie to actually be Charles. The whole story Laurie was explaining Charles’s behaviour and it was actually his.

Question 20

What is the theme in Priscilla and the wimps

Answer 20

The theme is bullying

Question 21

What is the tone and Priscilla and the wimps

Answer 21

The tone is to accomplish a dark story in a serious topic but keeping it light and comical

Question 22

Why does the author use alliteration for the names in Priscilla and the wimps

Answer 22

The use of the names is to be memorable and keep it light and not so dark. They’re supposed to also be entertaining and fun

Question 23

What is alliteration in Charles

Answer 23

• told Charles to touch his toes
• with bibs and began wearing blue jeans with a belt 

Question 24

What is alliteration in Priscilla and the wimps

Answer 24

• Klutter’s Kobras
• Mighty Monk
• five foot five

Question 25

What is the allusion in Priscilla and the wimps

Answer 25

The biblical allusion in the story is referring to the garden of Eden. They refer to the serpent in the garden and say that it only is monk’s paradise

Question 26

What is a simile and Priscilla and the wimps

Answer 26

- His neck popping like gunfire

Question 27

What is a simile in Charles

Answer 27

- This Charles boy sounds like a bad influence

Question 28

Personification in Charles

Answer 28

- Lunch is waiting

Question 29

What is a metaphor in Priscilla and the wimps

Answer 29

- When the Kobras slithered by

Question 30

Metaphor in Charles

Answer 30

He is awfully fresh

Question 31

What is the climax in Priscilla and the wimps

Answer 31

When Priscilla and Monk started speaking in monk tries to grab Melvin

Question 32

What is the resolution in Priscilla and the wimps

Answer 32

Fate

Question 33

Falling action in Priscilla and the wimps

Answer 33

When Priscilla Pushed and headlocked monk and put him into the locker. Then they left

Question 34

What is the crisis point in Priscilla and the wimps

Answer 34

The moment the gang member goes after Melvin and Priscilla decides to step in

Question 35

Why did Laurie create Charles

Answer 35

Laurie created Charles because he wanted attention because he wasn’t getting as much as his baby sister, he also likes the attention from the students at school and when he told his parents about the problem they didn’t seem to address it so he kept doing it thinking it was great.