The main message in the story.
Where and when the story takes place.
What is the setting?
This is the highest point of a story. Everything builds up to this point.
What is climax?
A figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using the words like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Sleepy, Happy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Dopey, Doc. Who is missing?
Bashful
The problem in the story that needs to be resolved.
What is the conflict?
When you expect one thing to happen in a story, but the opposite happens.
This is something that a character wants or desires. By the end of the story, the character achieves it or does not.
What is a spine?
This is a figure of speech in which an object has humanlike qualities or emotions.
What is personification?
Who is William Shakespeare?
This is what we call the main character in a story.
Who is the protagonist?
This is a character in a story who goes against the main character.
Who is the antagonist?
What is an internal conflict? Give an example.
A problem that happens within a person's mind.
This is a figure of speech comparing two unlike things using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
This is the most popular ice cream flavor in the US.
What is chocolate?
Point of view of a story that uses the words "I" and "me."
What is first person point of view?
Point of view in a story that uses the pronouns "he" "she" or "they" to tell the story.
This type of irony is shown through what someone says. It is kind of like sarcasm.
What is verbal irony?
This is when an author uses sensory details and adjectives to paint a picture in the reader's mind.
What is imagery?
This is the number one tourist attraction in the United States.
What is the Grand Canyon?
This type of irony is when the audience knows something that the character in the story does NOT know.
What is dramatic irony?
What is an external conflict? Give an example.
A problem that happens between a person and something or someone else.
What is situational irony? Give an example.
When an action happens that you would not expect to happen.
A literary device that uses symbols, words or pictures to represent an idea or something else.
What is symbolism?
We read Stephen King's short story, "The Body" in class. What is the name of the movie that it was turned into?
What is Stand By Me?