Plot
Character
Setting
Point of View
Theme
100
A series of related events, each event connected to the next.
What is plot?
100
List the two types of characterization.
What is direct and indirect?
100
Define setting.
What is where the story takes place?
100
Define a narrator.
What is the voice that tells a story?
100
Define theme.
What is the central idea of the story?
200
This is the beginning of the plot.
What is exposition?
200
List all five of the methods of indirect characterization.
What are speech, appearance, private thoughts, others' thoughts and actions?
200
List the four elements that the setting background may tell a reader.
What is the locale, weather, time of day and time period?
200
Define omniscient.
What is "all-knowing?"
200
Theme does this.
What is makes some revelation about the subject?
300
The exposition includes these THREE elements.
What are the characters, the setting and the conflict?
300
List two of the three elements to look for when analyzing a character's speech.
What are tone, topics and the kinds of words they use?
300
The purpose of setting is to do this.
What is to provide a place for the characters to live in to make them more believable?
300
An omniscient character is not this.
What is a character in the story?
300
Define subject.
What is the topic of the story?
400
A struggle or problem.
What is the conflict?
400
Define inference.
What is an educated guess?
400
What two other elements of literature (one of which we discussed) does setting influence?
What are character and atmosphere?
400
Describe what an omniscient narrator can tell a reader.
What is everything about all of the characters?
400
A theme can be stated in _________ and a topic may be stated in ______________.
What is one sentence versus one or two words?
500
List the two types of conflict.
What are internal and external conflict?
500
Name the type of characterization listed in this sentence: "She was a large woman with a large purse that had everything in it but hammer and nails."
What is appearance?
500
Atmosphere affects this.
What is the way we feel?
500
Define first-person point of view.
What is a character in the story who tells the story from his or her perspective using the pronoun "I?"
500
Name the two types of theme that stories typically include.
What is revealing a truth about human behavior and a conflict between what is and what ought to be?
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