PLOT & SETTING
This is the series of related events in a story.
What is plot?
This point of view has the story being told from the perspective of a character within the story who uses pronouns like I, me, and my.
What is first person POV?
The emotions a reader feels from a text are referred to as this.
What is mood?
The person or voice that tells the story is called this.
What is the narrator?
This is the struggle between opposing forces in a story.
What is conflict?
The turning point in the story is called this.
What is the climax?
The main character or hero in a story is called this.
What is the protagonist?
The author's attitude toward his or her subject is called this.
What is tone?
The underlying meaning or message the author is trying to convey through the story.
What is theme?
The person or force that opposes the main character.
What is the antagonist?
The events in this element of plot build suspense and tension within the story.
What is the rising action?
Identify the type of narration used in the following excerpt:
Ding! Katie looked at her phone. It was a text message from Jeff. "Ugh! Not now," she said aloud due to her frustration. She was mad at Jeff for a comment that he had made about her the last time that they spoke. She had been so irritated that she demanded he leave.
Meanwhile, Jeff was at home trying to figure out why Katie was so mad at him. "Did I say something that might have made her angry?" he thought to himself. He decided that he had been a perfect gentleman, and she was the one who was rude, so she should apologize to him.
What is 3rd person omniscient?
This literary element is active, changes based on the reader, and is often influenced by the setting or atmosphere of the story.
What is mood?
When a story goes back in time to share an event that occurred before the current action, it is called this.
What is flashback?
Hints about what is going to happen next in the story are called this.
What is foreshadowing?
These are the three things that are introduced in the exposition.
What are setting, characters, and conflict?
These are the two types of third person narrators.
BONUS: Describe the difference between the two.
What is 3rd limited and 3rd omniscient?
What is 3rd omniscient knows all characters thoughts, wants, needs, and desires while 3rd limited generally knows only one character's thoughts, wants, needs, and desires.
Read the following excerpt and choose the mood that describes what you read.
After New Year’s, the time came to put all the decorations away and settle in for the long, cold winter. The house seemed to sigh as we boxed up its finery. The tree was dry and brittle, and now waited forlornly by the side of the road for pick up.
a. hopeful b. dreary c. tense d. cautious
What is b. dreary?
This is the definition of resolution.
What is a reasonable conclusion to the story that resolves all conflicts?
Jack, an adventurous young man who loves mountain biking, heads out for a ride on a sunny spring day. Little does he know, a fast-moving blizzard is going to hit before he finishes his ride.
This part of the plot is called this.
What is exposition?
This is the definition of the inciting incident and its purpose in the plot.
What is the first rising action event that sets the plot in motion and upsets the balance of the character's life?
Name three types of people who could be considered unreliable narrators.
Who are
-children
-criminals
-mentally unstable people
- liars/untrustworthy people?
What is the mood in the following excerpt and how does the setting affect the mood?
Brett sweated in his chair. The clock in the classroom ticked loudly. Brett looked at the test question again. He had no clue what the answer was. His teacher paced around the room. Brett felt like the teacher was circling him, specifically him, not the rest of the class. "Remember, this test determines your future," the teacher said. Brett read the choices again but they all blurred into a meaningless word soup. He could not concentrate. The clock kept ticking, and the second hand sounded like a butcher's knife slamming down on a cutting board. "Time is running out," said the teacher. Brett's heart pounded.
What is a tense mood and the setting of the classroom with the ticking clock and pacing teacher increases the tension?
These are three differences between novels and short stories.
What is
novels are longer than short stories
novels focus on multiple characters and conflicts while short stories focus on one
short stories start in the middle of the action or "in medias res"
novels reveal characters slowly while short stories show their qualities more quickly through their response to stress
Lucy finds a dog that she does not know wandering her neighborhood. The dog is friendly and fun to play with, so Lucy decides to keep her. As Lucy and her new dog walk home, Lucy sees a lost dog poster with a picture of the dog she has found playing with two young children. As much as Lucy loves the dog, she knows its owners must love it more. There is a phone number on the poster.
This is what Lucy will probably do next in the story and this is the element of plot it represents.
What is Lucy will call the owners to come get the dog and what is resolution?