The series of events in a story that includes the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
What is plot?
100
In the story, "The Homecoming," this is the narrator's point of view.
What is third person?
100
In this point of view, the narrator is telling the story from his or her perspective and is inside the story. The text has pronouns like: I, me, my, we, our, us...
What is first person point of view?
100
He thinks that advising people is the charitable thing to do.
Who is the woodcutter?
100
You need _____ _________ and clues from the text to make a good prediction.
What is prior knowledge?
200
Introduces characters, setting basic situation and problem.
What is the exposition?
200
What was Laurence Yep's purpose for writing the short story "The Homecoming?"
What is entertainment? (to entertain)
200
Brief works of fiction
What are short stories?
200
This person collects odd, interesting stories in a thick book in "The Homecoming".
Who is the school teacher?
200
A logical guess using prior knowledge and clues from the text about what will happen next in a story.
What is a prediction?
300
The turning point in the story. The highest point of the story when the outcome becomes clear.
What is the climax?
300
A vocabulary word in "The Homecoming" that means that you are unable to concentrate.
What is distracted?
300
Novels, Novellas, and Short Stories.
What are the three major types of fiction?
300
"The Homecoming" and "Greyling" are examples of what genre.
What is fiction? What are short stories?
300
What prior knowledge tells you that the woodcutter is going to get into trouble when he goes into the mountains?
You know that people don't change their habits easily.
400
One is increasing suspense through actions and events and the other is decreasing to the conclusion.
What is the rising action and falling action?
400
A vocabulary word in "The Homecoming" that means that you know or remember something or someone.
What is recognize?
400
In this point of view, the narrator is a person outside the story telling from his/her perspective. The story uses pronouns like: he, she, they, it, etc.
What is third person point of view?
400
Several thousand years and seven days.
What is time that the woodcutter spent with the saints and the chess players?
400
The clue in the climax that indicate that the woodcutter has always been a "busybody"
What is the fact that the woodcutter found a rusty hatchet instead of his "practically new" hatchet.
500
These are the story elements in sequential order.
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
500
A type of fiction story that uses fascinating, supernatural characters to teach a lesson to a character with a weakness.
What is a folktale?
500
Fictional or realistic characters, plot, conflict, setting, narrator/point-of-view, and theme.
What are the key elements of fiction?
500
The part of the plot when the woodcutter tries to advise the chess players.
What is the rising action?
500
The clues in the rising action that indicate the funny old man and the fat man are more than they seem.
They play chess for seven days and nights straight.