Narrative Elements
Adjectives used to describe someone'e personality.
What are character traits?
The signpost that describes a point in a story in which information from the past is shared with the reader.
What is a memory moment?
The difference between a simile and a metaphor.
Both are a comparison between two unlike things, but a simile uses "like" or "as" to do so, while a metaphor does not.
The difference between a window book and a mirror book.
Window books show us a perspective or experience different from our own.
Mirror books allow us to see ourselves reflected in them.
A set of lines grouped together in poetry.
What is a stanza?
The two necessary elements when describing the setting of a story.
What are time and place?
A reference to another book, movie, famous person, or other element of popular culture. For example, Taylor Swift's "Love Story" refers to Romeo and Juliet.
What is an allusion?
Three ways an author might manipulate time in their writing.
What are slowing down, speeding up, and flashbacks?
The term used to describe all of the things that make up who a person is.
What is identity?
The name for a pair of lines, one after the other, that rhymes.
What is a Rhyming Couplet?
The four types of conflict.
What are Character vs. Character, Self, Nature, and Society?
A type of statement that describes a lesson from the book, such as: "Regardless of material differences, all people go through hardships and should be treated with kindness."
What is a theme statement?
The type of figurative language that describes the phrase: "...a taste of your own medicine."
What is an idiom?
A physical or symbolic "thing" that a person can possess which makes them powerful.
What is a source of power?
When describing the rhyme scheme of a poem, the letter given to a line that rhymes with the first line of the poem.
What is "A"?
The moment near the beginning of the story that sets the conflict in motion.
What is the inciting incident?
A daily, natural occurrence discussed by Ponyboy and Cherry that symbolizes the similarities between their social groups.
What are sunsets?
Another term for sarcasm.
What is verbal irony?
A situation that is unfair to a person or group of people due to specific laws or rules (coming from a governing body) that make it unfair.
What is de jure injustice?
The proper term for a stanza consisting of exactly 4 lines.
What is a quatrain?
The point of view in which the narrator is able to describe the thoughts and feelings of any character.
What is 3rd Person Omniscient?
An idea, topic, image, event, etc. that recurs throughout a story.
What is a motif?
The type of irony that describes a situation in which the reader (or audience) knows something the characters do not yet know.
What is dramatic irony?
The three elements of power described in this class.
What are:
Power Systems
Sources of Power
Power Dynamics?
The alliterative, 3-word phrase referring to the idea that the shape or structure of a poem supports or helps create the poem's meaning.