Denouement Reading (MS Conservatory) Question Preview (ID: 48055)


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The denouement of a story occurs just after the inciting incident and is the final moment in which there is resolution for any remaining conflicts in the plot.
a) False
b) True
c)
d)

The denouement of a story occurs just after the climax and is the final moment in which there is resolution for any remaining conflicts in the plot.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

It is also a return to normalcy for the characters, though there may be a “new normal” after the intricacies of the plot have occurred and been revealed.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

Generally, in a comedy the characters end up happier than they were at the beginning of the plot (a “happier ever after” scenario), while in tragedies the characters end up worse off than in the beginning, often with one or more deaths.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

The word denouement comes from the Latin word desnouer, which means “to untie.”
a) False
b) True
c)
d)

The climax of World War II was...
a) the official surrender of Japan in 1945
b) the surrender of the Germans in May of 1945
c) atomic bombs being dropped
d)

Most works of nonfiction and drama include a denouement as a way of wrapping up the story and providing a conclusion, whether or not it is ambiguous.
a) False
b) True
c)
d)

Only in some modern stories is there no real denouement.
a) False
b) True
c)
d)

While many have taken the Life of Pi at face-value that Pi Patel survived a shipwreck on a lifeboat with a Bengal lion, the final line of the novel casts some doubt on whether this unlikely survival story could really have happened.
a) False
b) True
c)
d)

In the final line of Animal Farm, the other animals cannot distinguish between the pigs and their original oppressors, showing that they have become one and the same.
a) True
b)
c)
d)

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