Plot Graphs
Vocabulary
The Streak
BDH/Big Joe's Funeral
Kitty and Mack: A Love Story
100
This goes at the beginning of a PG and has 4 different elements: Setting, Conflict, Protagonist and Antagonist
What is Exposition
100
This noun represents a specific type of poem.
What is a sonnet?
100
Jamie has this happen to him in the beginning of the story, setting off his bad luck.
What is missing the winning shot in a basketball game?
100
What is the conflict in "The Baddest Dog in Harlem"?
What is the cops think that there is a shooter/terrorist in an apartment building on 145th street.
100
Kitty writes one of these to get Mack's initial attention.
What is a sonnet?
200
Actions that come after the climax that lead to the resolution of the story.
What are the falling actions?
200
I was so sad and hopeless after the man told me I wouldn't win the lottery.
What is despondent?
200
This event can be considered the climax of the story.
What is when Jamie throws the egg and it lands in the carton?
200
This character is the antagonist in "Big Joe's Funeral".
Who is Peaches?
200
Kitty writes a public one of these to get Mack's attention after the accident.
What is a letter in the window of Duke's barbershop.
300
Oui Oui! This element comes after the resolution to the story.
What is the denouement?
300
When you are likely or responsible to do something.
What is liable?
300
Jamie is afraid his good luck will run out and he will not be able to do this:
What is ask Celia Evora to the dance?
300
Big Joe uses this to pay for his fake funeral.
What is his cancelled life insurance policy?
300
Mack demonstrates his attitude after the accident by doing this.
What is standing on top of a building, threatening to commit suicide.
400
These actions lead up to, but do not include the climax
What are the rising actions?
400
After Mr. Beling runs the marathon, he will be this:
What is fatigued?
400
Jamie's dad is worried about this.
What are the problems of growing up as a black male in the inner city?
400
The narrator finds this disturbing scene in the apartment complex next to Mary Brown's apartment.
What is a deceased child, shot by the police by mistake?
400
This event changes everything.
What is the drive-by shooting?
500
This event determines the path of the story takes after it happens.
What is the climax?
500
This summer I went on a long and difficult journey.
What is a trek?
500
Jamie continues his bad luck when he throws a milk carton on this behemoth:
Who is Maurice DuPre?
500
This character calls the police to distract them from the party.
Who is Chops?
500
What is Mack's initial plan for his and Kitty's relationship?
What is he would play pro baseball and she would go to school, eventually opening their own business.
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