Elements of Fiction Quiz - Study Guide
This quiz will cover the following subjects:
Protagonists and Antagonists
Conflict and its different types
Setting and its elements
The Plot Map
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First, review your notes and answer the following questions to the best of your
ability.
Then, check your answers against the answer key I have posted on MyKPS.
Finally, spend extra time reviewing topics in any questions you did not answer
correctly. I encourage you to see me during conference with any questions you
have.
PROTAGONIST
1. What is a protagonist in a story?
2. How can we tell which character is
the protagonist?
ANTAGONIST
3. What is an antagonist?
4. Is the antagonist always the “bad
guy”?
CONFLICT
5. What is the definition of literary
conflict?
6. What is the difference between
internal and external conflict?
7. There are four different types of conflict. Read each description below and identify
the type of conflict it best represents.
a. Bulls are expected to be
tough and fight bullfighters,
but Ferdinand the Bull just
wants to lay in the field and
smell flowers.
Character vs. ____________
b. Lucy Wu wants to be captain
of the 6th grade basketball
team, but so does Sloan.
Character vs. ____________
c. Maria knows she needs to do
her homework, but she’d
rather just play Roblox.
Character vs. ____________
d. Ms. Freiler needs to use the
internet to Zoom into class,
but a thunderstorm knocks
out power to her house.
Character vs. ____________
SETTING
8. What are the three elements of
setting?
PLOT MAP
9. Which part of the story is when
the conflict is introduced?
10. What’s the difference between
the rising action and the falling
action?
11. What information is introduced in
the exposition?
12. What is the part of the story
called when the conflict is resolved,
and we see the characters’ “new
normal”?