Plot Diagram
Characterization
Conflict
General
Literary techniques
100
The action or series of events that lead up to the climax.
What is the rising action?
100
The main character, usually the "good guy"
What is a protagonist?
100
Character vs Self, Character vs Character, Character vs Environment (or faith)
What are the three types conflicts?
100
Beginning, Middle, and End
What are the 3 sections in a short story?
100
Includes mental pictures that readers experience with a passage of literature
What is an imagery?
200
To describe the setting, to introduce the characters, and to give any necessary background information
What is the purpose of the Introduction?
200
A character who has only one or two personality trait, a one- dimensioned character
What is a flat character?
200
Inciting incident
When is the conflict usually introduced?
200
The message the writer wants to share with the reader
What is the theme?
200
The fur of this cat is like the a big poof ball.
What is an example of a metaphor?
300
Character vs Self and Character vs Character
What was the conflict in Lamb to the Slaughter?
300
Mme. Forrestier
Who is the antagonist in the Necklace?
300
Person vs him or herself
What is an internal conflict?
300
Where and When the story happens
What is the definition of the setting?
300
Narrator can describe characters and what they are doing, but will only communicate the thoughts and feelings of a single character (the main one.)
What is third person limited?
400
When she killed her husband
What happened during the climax of Lamb to the Slaughter?
400
Because she never changed her personality, she never changer her personality
Why is Mme. Forrestier a static character?
400
Character vs Character, Character vs Self
What is the conflict in the Necklace?
400
There is always a bright side, and you can always find advantages to anything
What is the theme of Half a Gift?
500
Her mother became happy as her husband added more to the gift Nick had given her, the protagonist overcomes the conflict
What makes Half a Gift a happy ending?
500
Because she has two sides to her, before and after the murder of her husband
Why is Mary Malooney a round character in Lamb to the Slaughter?
500
Character vs Self, CHaracter vs Character
What is the conflict in Half a Gift
500
An impression
What does a story want to give?
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