Nonfiction
Fiction
The Necklace
The Interlopers
PLOT
100
The time and/or place where the story happens.
setting
100
Brief works of fiction made up of plot, character, setting, point of view and theme.
What are short stories?
100
What is the setting?
France
100
What is the setting?
Carpathian Mountains cold dark night
100
The basic information about the characters and the situation.
What is exposition?
200
The sequence of events that takes you through a story.
plot
200
Stories that include robots or futuristic elements.
What is science fiction?
200
What is the theme?
A woman spends her life wishing she had something more until she loses it all.
200
What do the two neighbors want to do when they first come face to face?
kill each other
200
The events in the story that increase the tension that readers feel.
What is rising action?
300
The people or animals that take part in the story’s action.
characters
300
Longer works of fiction that contain the same elements as short stories – characters, plot, conflict, and setting.
What are novels?
300
Why does Mathilde borrow the neclace from Mme. Forestier?
She does not have fine jewelry.
300
How far back does the feud go back between the two families?
goes back generations
300
The high point of the story, usually the point at which the eventual outcome is revealed.
What is climax?
400
A message about life that a story conveys to its reader.
theme
400
Literature that draws, in part, on real people and events to tell invented stories.
What is historical fiction
400
How do you explain the end of The Necklace?
The Loisels have suffered needlessly.
400
When do the men stop fighting?
Grandwitz offers Znaeym wine from his flask.
400
The events that follow the climax.
What is falling action?
500
The perspective of a character in the story
first person
500
Works of fiction that are shorter than novels, but longer than short stories.
What are novellas?
500
How did the Loisels get the money to replace The Necklace? (three ways)
borrow some work hard spend less
500
Name three symbols and what each represents....
flask... friendship wolves... death branch... weight of feud
500
Name the 5 parts of the plot triangle?
exposition rising action climax falling action resolution
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