Crafty Plots
Define the Device
Vantage Point
Essay Essentials
Define the Device 2: Electric Boogaloo
100
A series of related incidents begins to build towards the climax of the novel.
What is Rising Action?
100
The mockingjay pin that Katniss wears represents the rebellion.
What is a symbol?
100
The story is told by a character, using "I".
What is First Person?
100
The central idea of a story
What is a Theme?
100
The snow was a white, soft blanket.
What is a Metaphor?
200
The main problem in the novel - internal or external.
What is a Conflict?
200
Lightning danced across the sky.
What is personification?
200
The story is told by someone outside the story, using "he" or "she", but focusing on a single character's thoughts and feelings.
What is Third Person Limited?
200
The point you are making in your writing. This should have some support!
What is a Claim?
200
Carrie's cat clawed her couch.
What is Alliteration?
300
The turning point, or most exciting part of the story.
What is the Climax?
300
The Titanic was called unsinkable, but it sank on its first voyage.
What is Irony?
300
The person who is telling the story.
What is a Narrator?
300
These facts support your claim and make it stronger.
What is Evidence?
300
Boom! Clap! The sound of my heart. The beat goes on and on and on and on and...
What is Onomatopoeia?
400
The conflict has ended, and the author wraps everything up... unless that author is Lois Lowry.
What is Resolution?
400
The boy was as busy as a bee while he reviewed for his finals.
What is a Simile?
400
The story is told by someone outside the story, using "he" or "she". It gives insight into the thoughts and feelings of multiple characters.
What is Third Person Omniscient?
400
When you take some facts and put them together to draw a conclusion.
What is an Inference?
400
She answered the door in a hurry, still putting her earrings in and telling me to come in for a moment. I entered what looked like an abandoned war zone with clothes and shoes scattered across the floor, and magazines piled haphazardly on every spare surface. She was not a very organized person, I suppose.
What is Characterization?
500
When the author sets up the main characters, setting, and gives background information before the story's action begins. Known in science fiction and fantasy as world-building.
What is Exposition?
500
In the first book of The Lord of the Rings, Frodo says, ""So far, my only hope has been to get here. I hope I shan't have to go any further..." The next two books are about Frodo's travels.
What is Foreshadowing?
500
The story is told using "you". The reader feels that he or she is the main character.
What is Second Person?
500
Stories are divided into paragraphs and books are divided into chapters. Poetry is divided into what?
What are Stanzas?
500
"Reckon I have," said Walter. "Almost died first year I come to school and et them pecans--folks say he pizedned 'em and put 'em over on the school side of the fence."
What is Dialect?
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