Story Elements
The problem of the story.
What is conflict?
A true story about yourself.
What is a personal narrative?
The purpose of pronouns.
What is to take the place of nouns?
The setting of Tuck Everlasting.
What is Treegap in the late 1800's?
Another character trait for mean.
What is cruel, bossy, evil, rude, etc?
The turning point of the story where the greatest emotion, conflict occurs and where the events begin to change towards a different direction.
What is climax?
Each new paragraph, setting, or mood starts with these.
The pronoun that takes the place of a female's name.
What is she?
One word to describe how Winnie feels at the beginning of the story.
What is controlled? Lonely? Bored? Insignificant?
Another character trait for helpful.
What is cooperative, dependable, responsible, trustuworthy, etc.
What is the resolution of the story?
The message that the personal narrative teaches.
What is theme?
The pronoun that takes the place of first person plural.
What is we?
Pa Tuck's view on living forever.
Another character trait for nervous.
What is anxious, fearful, uncertain, uneasy, etc?
What is exposition?
Ways to elaborate in a story and bring out the heart.
What are dialogue, small actions, and elaboration.
An error in pronoun usage in which the pronoun changes in gender or number.
What is a pronoun shift?
Examples of how the Tucks knew they would live forever.
What are the horse was shot, Jesse fell from a tree, Pa was bit by a snake, but they all survived. But the cat didn't drink, and died.
The character in Tuck Everlasting that could be best described as deceitful.
Who is the man in the yellow suit?
Any events that occur after the resolution, which help to tie up the plot of the story.
What is denouement?
A personal narrative is always told from this point of view.
What is first person?
The types of pronouns that "She" and "him" are in the following sentence:
She threw the ball at him.
What are subjective and objective pronouns.
What are the earth on its axis, a ferris wheel in its turning, the water cycle, the calendar in its turning of seasons.
The character in Tuck Everlasting who can best be described as heavy-hearted.