Defining the Elements
Plot
Name that conflict
Points of View
Vocab Definitions
100
The message.
What is theme?
100
Define climax.
What is the turning point?
100
Jeremy Goldblatt
What is character vs. society?
100
When the narrator is a character in the story.
What is first person?
100
a route of travel
What is an itinerary?
200
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is the point of view?
200
Define Rising Action
What is when the conflict becomes more complicated and tension builds.
200
The Wife's Story
What is character vs. character?
200
When the story is told from the vantage point of a single character. This character is the only one whose thoughts the reader has access to. The reader only has access to what other characters DO or SAY.
What is third person LIMITED?
200
turn aside from a course
What is deviate?
300
Conflict
What is the main problem in a story?
300
Define Falling Action
What is the events after the climax, when you see how characters respond to, or are changed or affected by the climax.
300
The Monkey's Paw
What is character vs. the supernatural?
300
When the narrator addresses the reader directly.
What is second person?
300
staying only a short time
What is transient?
400
Setting
What is the time or place in which a story takes place?
400
Define exposition
What is the beginning of the story when the characters, setting, and conflict are introduced.
400
All Summer in a Day
What is character vs. nature?
400
When the reader can only see what characters DO and SAY. The reader is not given access to any of the characters' thoughts.
What is third person objective?
400
to satisfy an appetite fully
What is to satiate?
500
Define Indirect characterization.
What is the techniques used by authors to develop characters through thoughts, dialogue, actions, or physical description?
500
Define plot
What is all the events that make up a story?
500
The Gift of the Magi.
What is character vs. fate?
500
When the narrator is not a character in the story, but can tell the reader the thoughts, actions, and dialogue of every character.
What is third person omniscient?
500
something that resembles something else on a smaller scale
What is a microcosm?
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