Plot Structure/Story Arcs
Literary Devices
Themes / Internal vs. External
Short Story Trivia
Grammar
DOUBLE OR NOTHING (ONLY 500)
100
The person we follow throughout the story.
Who is the protagonist?
100
Uses "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
This happens when a character is fighting within themselves.
What is internal conflict?
100
The first story with read (title and author)—spelling is not a factor if I can tell what you are trying to say.
What and who is Two Friends by Guy de Maupassant?
100
What are the parts of speech for the following bolded words?
The cat and the dog went to play on the playground.
What are nouns?
200
The introduction of characters and setting.
What is the exposition?
200
A scene in a story that jumps back to an earlier time.
What is a flashback?
200
Specific conflict type: A worker must confront her boss about unfair pay.
What is character vs. character?
200
In The Open Window, this is the full name of the main character.
Who is Framton Nuttle?
200
We really want to eat quickly so we aren’t late to the movie later.
What are adverbs?
300
This comes after conflict on the plot structure graph.
What is the Rising Action?
300
Literary Device Example: "Little Red Cap looked up, and when she saw the sunbeams dancing this way..."
What is personification?
300
Specific conflict type:
On a visit to a Minnesota university, a group of Philadelphia Academy students get stuck in an ice storm and have to reschedule their visit.
What is character vs. nature?
300
In Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket, Tom Benecke dropped these things to see if he could get the attention of someone below.
What are coins?
300
Compound predicates in the following sentence:
Jack loves to eat beans and climb beanstalks.
What are eat and climb?
400
Tell me all of the plot structure points (in order from left to right)—you must still state it as a question:
What is the Exposition, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution?
400
Literary Device Example: "I hope Vera has been amusing you?" asked Mrs. Sappleton (after Vera has just told the spooky story of the open window).
What is foreshadowing?
400
Specific conflict Type: You are debating with yourself about how to respond to a rumor you hear about you.
What is internal conflict?
400
In Two Friends, these are the type of people Morrisot and Sauvage come into contact with.
Who are the Prussian?
400
Tell me if the follow sentence is a sentence, fragment, or run-on:
The food in the fridge was old so they threw their food away.
What is a run-on?
500
The more complex the story, the more _________________ within it.
What are story arcs (plot structures)?
500
Literary Device Example: Little Red Cap is a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.
What is allusion?
500
Specific Conflict Type:
A couple in China wanted to have 3 children, but China limits couples to having 2 children.
What is character(s) vs. society?
500
In Little Red Cap, the 2nd wolf dies by being ________.
What is drowned in trough?
500
Tell me if the follow sentence is a sentence, fragment, or run-on:
Because Mrs. Larsen wanted the students to pass, she gave students the follow review and they studied for the entire class.
What is a run-on?
500
Who is the author of Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket?
Who is Jack Finney?