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A quiz to test your knowledge of the elements of fiction writing.

Welcome to Craft of Writing Trivia!

This quiz features questions meant to test your knowledge of the elements of fiction writing and short story writing.

You're given multiple attempts at Craft of Writing Trivia.

Please, have fun!

1. Writing Fiction:
 A story’s characters and setting(s) can be brought alive through _____ writing.
       time span        
       denouement        
       descriptive        
       none of the above        
2. Writing Fiction:
 _____ in a story includes the words used to show what a person or thing is like, or how a person or thing looks.
       Point of view        
       Description        
       Conflict        
       Resolution        
3. Endings:
 The surprise ending of a story is called a _____.
       twist        
       hook        
       brief        
       theme        
4. Background Information:
 An _____ can occur when too much of the back story is presented in one instance in a story.
       info dump        
       exposition        
       denouement        
       twist        
5. An Element of Fiction:
 Action that changes the story’s ending and consequences of the story is _____.
       plot        
       theme        
       conflict        
       climax        
6. Dialogue:
 Which of the following is true?
       Dialogue should be interesting.        
       Dialogue should be based on character.        
       Dialogue should be interesting and based on character.        
       None of the above,        
7. Writing Fiction:
 The _____ of a story can be defined as the attitude of the author towards the characters and their situations.
       theme        
       plot        
       tone        
       climax        
8. Writing Fiction:
 A transition to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story is called a _____.
       plot        
       flashback        
       theme        
       mood        
9. Mood:
 The mood of a story can be set through the use of description, dialogue, and action.
       True        
       False        
10. Shifts:
 A _____ is simply a move or shift in the story.
       plot        
       theme        
       transition        
       monologue        
11. Plot:
 A plot’s structure depends on the arrangement of a story’s exposition, climax, resolution, and _____.
       dialogue        
       paragraphs        
       denouement        
       complication        
12. Description:
 Long descriptions should be avoided.
       True        
       False        
13. Endings:
 The set of events that bring a story to a close are considered to be a story’s _____.
       plot        
       theme        
       hook        
       resolution        
14. Point of View:
 A story written in the _____ Point of View is told through a narrator who knows everything about the characters.
       First Person        
       Third Person Omniscient        
       Second Person        
       Third Person Limited        
15. Story Moral:
 The underlying message of a short story or a novel is called a ______.
       point of view        
       focus        
       theme        
       plot        
16. Conflict:
 A story’s conflict can be portrayed through dialogue, action, and/or mood.
       True        
       False        
17. Dialogue:
 In a story, dialogue can help set the mood, provide humor and conflict, build character, and _____.
       be italicized        
       advance the plot        
       be stiff and uninteresting        
       none of the above        
18. Beginnings:
 Beginnings alert the reader of the time and place or setting of a story, and introduce the writer's voice.
       True        
       False        
19. An Element of Fiction:
 The location where a story takes place is called the story’s _____.
       plot        
       theme        
       setting        
       description        
20. Characters:
 The less important characters in a story are also called minor or _____ characters.
       major        
       meaningless        
       stock        
       two dimensional        
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