Which statement best describes what happens in the climax of a story? Select the two correct answers.(1 point)

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Plot elements that remain open are tied up, and the story is concluded.
Plot elements that remain open are tied up, and the story is concluded.

The characters are introduced, and the setting of the story is established.
The characters are introduced, and the setting of the story is established.

Subplots and plot twists are introduced and dealt with by the characters.
Subplots and plot twists are introduced and dealt with by the characters.

The peak of the story’s tension and the height of the action are reached.
The peak of the story’s tension and the height of the action are reached.

The characters confront the conflict head-on and fully address it.

Use the passage to answer the question.

With that reflection Gortsby rose to go; as he did so an exclamation of concern escaped him. Lying on the ground by the side of the bench was a small oval packet, wrapped and sealed with the solicitude of a chemist’s counter. It could be nothing else but a cake of soap, and it had evidently fallen out of the youth’s overcoat pocket when he flung himself down on the seat.
Which component of the plot structure of this story is described in this excerpt?

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the resolution
the resolution

the falling action
the falling action

the rising action
the rising action

the climax
the climax

Use paragraph 1 from “The Interlopers” to answer the question.

In a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Carpathians, a man stood one winter night watching and listening, as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come within the range of his vision, and, later, of his rifle. But the game for whose presence he kept so keen an outlook was none that figured in the sportsman’s calendar as lawful and proper for the chase; Ulrich von Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy.
Which phrase most establishes tension?

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a man stood one winter night watching and listening
a man stood one winter night watching and listening

a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Carpathians
a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Carpathians

as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come within the range of his vision
as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come within the range of his vision

Ulrich von Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy

Use paragraph 2 from “The Interlopers” to answer the question.

The forest lands of Gradwitz were of wide extent and well stocked with game; the narrow strip of precipitous woodland that lay on its outskirt was not remarkable for the game it harboured or the shooting it afforded, but it was the most jealously guarded of all its owner’s territorial possessions. A famous law suit, in the days of his grandfather, had wrested it from the illegal possession of a neighbouring family of petty landowners; the dispossessed party had never acquiesced in the judgment of the Courts, and a long series of poaching affrays and similar scandals had embittered the relationships between the families for three generations. The neighbour feud had grown into a personal one since Ulrich had come to be head of his family; if there was a man in the world whom he detested and wished ill to it was Georg Znaeym, the inheritor of the quarrel and the tireless game-snatcher and raider of the disputed border-forest.
Which phrase is a signal that the story has moved backward in time?

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poaching affrays and similar scandals
poaching affrays and similar scandals

if there was a man in the world whom he detested
if there was a man in the world whom he detested

The forest lands of Gradwitz were of wide extent
The forest lands of Gradwitz were of wide extent

in the days of his grandfather

Answer 1

Here are the answers to your questions based on the provided excerpts:

1. Which statement best describes what happens in the climax of a story? Select the two correct answers.

   • The peak of the story’s tension and the height of the action are reached.
   • The characters confront the conflict head-on and fully address it.

2. Which component of the plot structure of this story is described in this excerpt?

   • the rising action

3. Which phrase most establishes tension?

   • Ulrich von Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy

4. Which phrase is a signal that the story has moved backward in time?

   • in the days of his grandfather

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