PLOT & CONFLICT
This part of the plot introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation.
What is the exposition?
A theme should be written as this, not a single word.
What is a complete sentence?
This element includes time and place.
What is setting?
The genre of The Monkey’s Paw.
What is horror?
What sound the narrator believes he hears.
What is a heartbeat?
A conflict that takes place within a character’s mind.
What is internal conflict?
This element often reveals theme through growth or change.
What is character development?
The person who tells the story.
What is the narrator?
A story element that creates tension and fear.
What is suspense?
The cause of Herbert’s death.
What is a factory accident?
The Whites versus fate in The Monkey’s Paw is this type of conflict.
What is Man vs. Nature?
A character who changes over the course of the story.
What is a dynamic character?
The main character of a story.
What is the protagonist?
A story that includes supernatural or magical elements falls into this genre
What is fantasy?
Where the narrator of "The Tell Tale Heart" hides the body.
What is under the floorboards?
The event that sets the main conflict of the story in motion.
What is the inciting incident?
Character change often helps reveal the story’s deeper meaning, or this.
What is theme?
The character who opposes the protagonist.
What is the antagonist?
The mood created by fear and tension is known as this.
What is tone or atmosphere?
The narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart is best described as this. (type of narrator - NOT narrative POV)
What is unreliable?
In The Tell-Tale Heart, the narrator’s guilt represents this conflict.
What is internal conflict? (person vs. self)
Theme should apply beyond the story to this.
What is real life? (Universally, broadly, the world outside the text)
This literary element represents a deeper meaning beyond itself.
What is symbolism?
This literary element hints at future events.
What is foreshadowing?
What the main character of "Popularity" realizes by the end. (Similar to the theme)
What is popularity is not worth losing yourself?
(Friendships that come easily can be lost easily, friends who abandon others can not be trusted, etc.)