Examination Day
Who is the protagonist in Examination Day?
Dickie Jordan
Who is the protagonist in All Summer in a Day?
Margot
I've told you a million times!
Hyperbole
How many parts of plot are there?
5: Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution
The when and where of a story...
Setting
Why was Dickie executed?
His IQ was too high.
What is the setting of All Summer in a Day?
Venus in the future.
They're like two peas in a pod!
Simile
The build up of the story, the events that lead to the climax.
Rising Action
The villain of a story is called...
Antagonist
What is the climax of the story?
Dickie taking the test and being executed.
What makes Margot different from her classmates?
Margot was born on Earth and has seen the sun before.
Good luck, break a leg!
Idiom
Climax
The problem of the story is called the...
Conflict
How do we know Dickie is intelligent before he goes in for the test?
He asks questions, prefers reading over watching TV, bored by the photos in comic books
Who wrote All Summer in a Day?
Ray Bradbury
That shirt is pretty ugly.
Oxymoron
The come down from the climax, the events that lead to the resolution.
Falling Action
The "moral of the story"...
Theme
What is a potential theme in the story?
Society suffers when people blindly obey authority.
Intelligence can be viewed as a threat by those in power.
Society fails when individual potential is sacrificed to maintain state control.
For how long, and how often, does the sun shine on Venus?
2 hours every 7 years
He has a heart of gold.
Metaphor
The beginning of the story where key information is revealed.
Exposition
The point of view that uses "he, she, they" pronouns
3rd