Stories
Figurative Language
Elements
Cause and Effect
CUPS
100
The setting for the story "The Sniper."
What is Dublin, Ireland during the Irish Civil War.
100
"Morning must not find him wounded on the roof."
What is personification?
100
This is the struggle between the opposing forces on which the action in a work of literature depends.
What is conflict?
100
This literary element isolates the man; it limits his choices--because he cannot survive in this setting without resources, he must remain with the Crow.
What is setting?
100
Name the letter of CUPS that would apply to the following sentence. And then he said, You should try to get a good education, a good job and make the world a better place.
What is punctuation?
200
This was the cause of the sniper getting shot.
What is he revealed his position?
200
"The sniper thought the sound would wake the dead."
What is hyperbole or cliche'?
200
We call the series of events that make up a story the this.
What is plot?
200
Yellow Robe might want to die because this happened.
What is his wife left him?
200
Name the letter of CUPS that would apply to the following sentence. In this class we studee language arts, were we leern to communicate.
What is spelling?
300
The most emotional moment in a story is called this, when the outcome of the conflict is finally revealed. In "The Sound of Thunder," the teacher's edition calls the moment when Travis shot Eckels the ________ of the story.
What is climax?
300
It was an enemy car. He wanted to fire, but he knew it was useless. His bullets would never pierce the steel that covered the gray monster.
What is metaphor?
300
Person (character) versus person (character)
What is conflict?
300
Dropping the quilt twice meant that this had happened.
What is two men had died?
300
Name the letter of CUPS that would apply to the following sentence. First period and me have studied for the final.
What is usage?
400
______ ________ is a struggle against some outside enemy.
What is external conflict?
400
He is a dog.
What is metaphor?
400
This tells where and when the story takes place. Dorothy M. Johnson’s”A Man Called Horse" is somewhat driven by this.
What is setting?
400
The bearskin belt meant that Yellow Robe could never do this.
What is retreat?
400
Name the letter of CUPS that would apply to the following sentence. I teach at sebastian middle school in breathitt county.
What is capitalization?
500
"The Cask of Amontillado" is set in this country.
What is Italy?
500
The captain “who would go up to the devil himself and ask him for a light.”
What is hyperbole?
500
Characters under this often reveal themselves and their values by what they say and how they act. Langston Hughes' "Thank You, M'am" demonstrates Roger under this.
What is stress?
500
In "Black Boy" the narrator must use this to make his way home with his groceries.
What is a big stick?
500
Name the letter of CUPS that would apply to the following sentence. Tomarrow we will have another wonderful day at school.
What is spelling?
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