The three elements that make up the setting of a story
What is TIME, PLACE, AND MOOD?
100
This type of character grows and changes over the course of a text
What is DYNAMIC CHARACTER?
100
This term refers to the sequence of events that make up a story. It often involves a conflict or a struggle.
What is PLOT?
100
This type of conflict involves a character's struggle with another person, force of nature, or society
What is EXTERNAL CONFLICT?
100
This is the feeling of the story you get as a reader--it's partly created by the setting. It can be formal or informal
What is MOOD?
200
This term includes both the Falling Action and the Resolution
What is DENOUEMENT?
200
This type of characterization is when the author explicitly describes a character to the reader
What is DIRECT CHARACTERIZATION?
200
This technique gives the reader clues about what will happen later in a story
What is FORESHADOWING?
200
This type of conflict takes place within a character's mind
What is INTERNAL CONFLICT?
200
The story's main ideas or the "message" the author wants to communicate by telling the story. They are called universal truths and must always be in statement form
What is THEME?
300
The action of the story comes to its highest point at this part of the plot diagram.
What is THE CLIMAX?
300
This type of character does not grow or change over the course of a text
What is STATIC CHARACTER?
300
This term refers to the people, animals, or creatures who take part in the action of the story
What are CHARACTERS?
300
List the four types of conflict
What is
1. PERSON VS. PERSON
2. PERSON VS. SELF
3. PERSON VS. NATURE
4. PERSON VS. SOCIETY
300
This term refers to the clues in the story that suggest the writer or narrator's own attitude toward the elements in the story.
What is TONE?
400
The rising action in a story is full of plot complications, otherwise known as increasing ____?
What is TENSION?
400
This type of characterization is when an author shows a character's actions and the reader must make their own conclusions about the character's personality
What is INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION?
400
This term refers to an image, object, character, or action that stands for an idea beyond the literal meaning--it represents something else.
What is A SYMBOL?
400
What type of conflict occurs in the following scenario:
Mrs. Lewis pushed Ms. Nolan out of the way to get the last piece of pizza in the lunch line.
What is PERSON VS. PERSON CONFLICT?
400
In the short story "The Tortoise and the Hare," what would the theme be?
What is SLOW AND STEADY WINS THE RACE?
500
What three things make up the exposition of a story?
What is BACKGROUND MATERIAL ABOUT CHARACTERS, SETTING, AND GENERAL CONFLICT?
500
List the five methods of characterization
What ARE
1. What a character SAYS
2. What a character DOES
3. What a character THINKS OR FEELS
4. What OTHERS SAY/THINK about a character
5. What the character LOOKS LIKE
500
This term refers to the writing that tells a story--what the characters don't actually say.
What is NARRATION?
500
Name the type of conflict that described in the following scenario:
Rikki-tikki-tavi had to decide whether to go after both Nag and Nagaina at once or to come up with a different plan.
What is INTERNAL CONFLICT?
500
Name one theme your class discussed for "Rikki-tikki-tavi".
What is ANSWERS WILL VARY. TEACHERS, IT IS YOUR CALL. :)