MYSTERY
"The Homecoming"
Elements of FICTION
Laurence Yep
Elements of PLOT
100
Why something happens.
What is a cause?
100
The genre of "The Homecoming"
What is fiction? What is a short story?
100
Long works of fiction
What are novels?
100
In "The Homecoming," the story is told from this perspective.
What is third person omniscient?
100
The sequence of events in a story based on characters and a conflict.
What is plot?
200
Losing yourself in time (cause and effect type relationship)
What is th EFFECT of hanging out with the saints?
200
It wasn't the woodcutter's house any more (cause and effect).
Why did the woman kick the woodcutter out of his house?
200
Brief works of fiction
What are short stories?
200
Laurence Yep's purpose for writing the short story, "The Homecoming."
What is 'to entertain'?
200
Introduces characters, setting, basic situation and conflict.
What is the exposition of a story?
300
A seal that can turn to human form on land.
What is a selchie?
300
Thousands of years for the saints. Seven days for the woodcutter.
What is time according to Laurence Yep in "The Homecoming?
300
Novels novellas, and short stories
What are major types of fiction?
300
The turning point in the story, often the most suspesnseful part of the story.
What is the climax?
400
Something based on evidence and can be proven.
What is a fact?
400
This character thinks he has a better answer for everything, known as this_______.
Who is the woodcutter? AND What is being a busybody?
400
The narrator is outside of the story and the action telling from his/her perspective.
What is third person point of view?
400
ONe is increasing suspense ina story through events and action where the other is decreasing toward to the conclusion.
What is the rising action? What is the falling action?
500
Restating text in your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
500
The woodcutter was giving the old man and the fat man advice.
What caused the woodcutter to watch the game?
500
Characters, setting, plot, narrator/point of view, and theme
What are the key elements found in fiction?
500
All five elements of the plot in sequential order.
What is the exposition, the rising acrtion, climax, falling action, and resolution.
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