AnswersCommon Core ELA 10 A - AberdeenAnalyzing Word Choice and Author’s Purpose in Short Stories

Analyzing Character, Theme, and Plot in Short Stories Answers

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By making inferences based on analysis of a character, the reader is able to determine a character's

A
actions.
B
development.
C
theme.
D
motivation.
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How would the end of the fairy tale "Cinderella" most likely change if the prince were not motivated to find the owner of the glass slipper?

A
The prince would marry one of Cinderella’s sisters.
B
Cinderella would continue to live a miserable life.
C
The prince would become impoverished, like Cinderella.
D
Cinderella would ask her stepmother to find the prince.
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The ________ of a story can be applied to other works of literature or to life.

A
setting
B
plot
C
theme
D
characters
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The reason a character thinks, feels, or acts a specific way is called

A
thematic development.
B
plot structure.
C
character motivation.
D
prior knowledge.
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Which statement best describes the resolution of "Sleeping Beauty"?

A
Aurora turns 16.
B
The prince rescues Aurora.
C
The Queen throws herself into the pit of reptiles.
D
Maleficent casts a spell.
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What details from a story best help develop the theme?

A
readers' prior knowledge
B
the author's motivations for writing
C
descriptions of time and place
D
character motivation and plot
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Read the passage from Hans Christian Andersen’s "The Princess and the Pea.”Then [the Queen] took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty eider-down beds on top of the mattresses.On this the princess had to lie all night. In the morning she was asked how she had slept."Oh, very badly!” said she. "I have scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, so that I am black and blue all over my body. It’s horrible!”Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had felt the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down beds.Nobody but a real princess could be as sensitive as that.So the prince took her for his wife, for now he knew that he had a real princess; and the pea was put in the museum, where it may still be seen, if no one has stolen it.There, that is a true story.

A
“Then [the Queen] took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea.”
B
“In the morning she was asked how she had slept.”
C
“‘Oh, very badly!’ said she. ‘I have scarcely closed my eyes all night.’”
D
“So the prince took her for his wife, for now he knew that he had a real princess.”
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What is rising action in a story?

A
a series of events that lead to the climax
B
the introduction of the main characters
C
a series of events that unfold after the climax
D
the culmination of conflict in the story
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Which event is part of the exposition in "Cinderella"?

A
The slipper fits Cinderella’s foot.
B
A fairy godmother appears to Cinderella.
C
The prince and Cinderella get married.
D
An invitation to the prince’s ball arrives.
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Which quotation from "Little Red Riding Hood" explains the theme?

A
"As long as I live, I will never by myself leave the path, to run into the wood, when my mother has forbidden me to do so."
B
"But Red-Cap went joyously home, and no one ever did anything to harm her again."
C
"She is ill and weak, and they will do her good."
D
"He went straight to the grandmother’s bed."

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