Creative writing

Writing stories and dialogues.

English for Communication5 questions

Story and dialogue

A good story has a setting, characters, a problem, rising action, a climax and a resolution.
Dialogue shows character through speech. Each new speaker starts a new line; speech goes inside quotation marks.

Show, don’t tell: “Her hands shook as she opened the envelope” shows nervousness better than “She was nervous.”

The turning point of greatest tension in a story is the:	Medium
Where and when a story takes place is its:	Easy
Which sentence best “shows” rather than “tells” that a character is angry?	Medium
In written dialogue, a new paragraph usually begins when:	Easy
The part of a story where the problem is solved is the:	Easy