A person, place, or thing that comes to represent an abstract idea or concept.
What is a symbol?
100
Eg. My eyes wandered to the old trunk in the corner. There were three new dolls lying on top of it.
What is first person point of view.
100
True or false. Themes often examine human motivation, human ambition and the human condition.
What is True?
100
A clash of actions, ideas, desires, or wills. (man vs. . . .)
What is conflict?
100
A character that changes in a fundamental way as a result of the events in a story?
What is a dynamic character?
200
Symbols almost always signal their existence (say "Hey, I'm a Symbol) by 1. _____________ 2 _______________ , and 3.________________ .
What are frequency, repetition and position?
200
Eg. Mr. E sat at his desk trying to think of interesting ways to get his students to study for the exam. Mrs. E entered the room and asked him what he was doing.
After Mr. E's short explanation, Mrs. E said, "Why don't you try online jeopardy?"
Mr. E loved the idea.
What is limited omniscient point of view?
200
True or False- Theme statements should include the names of the characters in a story.
What is false
200
The main character.
Who is the protagonist?
200
The name for a character that is a stereotype. You have seen him/her many times before.
What is a stock character?
300
Names can have symbolic meaning in stories. Three other things can also have symbolic meaning in stories.
What are actions, objects, and people?
300
Eg.Mr E. sait quietly at the desk. He made no movements. Mrs E. then entered the room and said, " What are you doing?"
"I'm trying to make exam review interesting for students," said Mr. E.
"Why don't you try jeopardy?" said Mrs. E.
Mr. E. smiled.
What is objective point of view?
300
The problem with this theme statement, "The theme of "The Last Fall" is two wrongs don't make a right."
What is cliche?
300
The forces arrayed against the protagonist, whether persons, things, conventions of society, or traits of his own character.
What is the antagonist?
300
The words for a character that can be defined by one or two traits.
What is a flat character?
400
In this kind of irony the discrepancy is between what is said and what is meant. Eg. Someone is talking about the invention of machine guns that can kill people by the dozens and says, "If this isn't progress!"
What is verbal irony?
400
Mr. E sat at his desk trying to think of an interesting way for students to review for the government exam.
At another location in the house, Mrs. E. was wondering if her husband would ever stop working for his students and start working around the house.
What is omniscient point of view?
400
Love, breeze, confidence, stress, speakers, loneliness.
The words above that aren't abstract nouns.
What are breeze and speakers?
400
A position in which a character must choose between two courses of action, both undesirable.
What is dilemma?
400
When an author describes a character through their actions rather than by telling the reader.
What is indirect presentation of character?
500
An example of action, object, and name symbolism from stories we have read?
What is a variety of correc answers?
500
The three third person points of view.
What are limited omniscient, objective, and omniscient?
500
The theme of the short story ?Ambush is that soldiers often have to commit terrible acts in order to survive and these acts haunt them later in life.
What is wrong with this theme statement?
What is a short story needs quotation marks around it?
500
The four kinds of conflict (not man vs. man etc).
What are physical, mental, moral, or emotional?
500
To be convincing, characterizations must observe these three principles.