Misc.
Plot
POV
Conflict
Definitions
100
What are the 5 elements that every story needs?
Plot, theme, characters, setting, conflict.
100
What is plot?
Organization of the main events of a work of fiction.
100
This POV uses the pronouns I, me, my, we, us.
What is 1st person?
100
This is where two or more characters have a problem.
What is character vs. character?
100
Setting includes this.
What is time and place?
200
The main character, the hero, is called this.
What is protagonist?
200
Reorder these elements of the plot diagram: Falling Action, Exposition, Climax, Resolution, Rising Action
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution
200
This is where the narrator is not a character in the story and talks about the characters. The narrator can only read one character's mind, feelings, and motive.
What is 3rd person limited?
200
Give an example of character vs. nature.
Where characters have to fight against a force of nature. For example: hurricanes, disease, hypothermia, drought, earthquakes, etc.
200
This includes all the events leading up to the climax.
What is rising action?
300
What is the definition of antagonist?
The character in conflict with the protagonist in some way, the "bad guy."
300
This is the turning point of a story where the main character comes face-to-face with a conflict that causes the main character to change in some way. The "high point" of a story.
What is the climax?
300
Define 3rd person omniscient.
Where the narrator is not a character in the story and is "all-knowing." This type of narrator can read every character's feelings, motives, and thoughts. The "god" narrator.
300
A story about a slave trying to escape slavery and its limitations is an example of this.
What is character vs. society?
300
This section presents facts necessary to understanding the story. Introduces characters and the setting.
What is exposition?
400
Define static and dynamic characters.
Static: character stays the same, Dynamic: character changes in some way
400
This is where all the loose ends of the plot are tied up.
What is falling action?
400
When it came to life Audrey was practical. She accepted all she was told to accept. And there had been quite a lot of it. She had been in London for the last five years but for one short holiday. There had been the big blitz, then the uneasy lull, then the little blitz, now the fly bombs. But she still accepted all she was told to accept, tried to remember all she was told to remember. The trouble was that she could not always forget all she was told to forget. She could not forget, for instance, that on her next birthday she would be twenty-nine years of age. Not a girl any longer. Not really. The war had already gobbled up several years and who knew how long it would go on? Audrey dreaded growing old. She disliked and avoided old people and thought with horror of herself as old. She had never told anyone her real and especial reason for loathing the war. She had never spoken of it---even to her friend Monica. What is the POV of this story?
What is 3rd person limited?
400
A character dealing with an internal struggle, usually moral or associated with mental health issues is the definition of this.
What is character vs. self?
400
2nd person POV uses this pronoun primarily.
What is "you"?
500
Lydia’s school memories were colored by her dealings with her little sister Maddie. Freespirited, strong-willed Maddie, whose spontaneity didn’t sit well with her teachers. “Maddie’s in trouble again,” she’d hear from her friends, and, sure enough, Maddie would be sitting on the bench outside the principal’s office, swinging her legs back and forth, giggling, shameless. She didn't hear her conscience. Lydia would be called out of class to be given the written version of her sister’s misdemeanors to carry home to their parents. You couldn’t trust Maddie to deliver the bad news herself. What is the POV of this story?
3rd person omniscient.
500
Draw the plot diagram on the board and label it.
See board.
500
Computers, networks, and the worldwide web have changed the way we share information. Letters and long-distance phone calls have become passé. They’ve been replaced by text messaging and the Internet phenomenon known as social networking—a quick way to maintain contact with friends and family in a communal on-line space. Most social networking sites enable users to create their own web pages that include photos, background information, and blogs. What network users don’t consider, however, is that these web pages also provide employers with a new, completely legal way to check out potential employees. What is the POV of this passage?
1st person
500
"Care is life, but in our society we have diminished and subverted it. We have radically overvalued competition, independence, self-reliance, and aggression, making of them the organizing principles around which we construct our politics and policies, our ethics, and even many of our personal relationships. But no society, no individual, can function without care. That is why in so many respects our lives no longer seen to work: why so many are so unfulfilled at work and at home, and why we complain that the people on whom we depend for gentleness and generosity, empathy and concern, no longer seem to have the time or energy to care. The social devaluation of care threatens to corrupt and compromise all who need it and all who give it." The person who gives this speech may be in what type of conflict?
What is character vs. society?
500
Define point of view (POV).
The perspective from which a story is told.
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