Figurative Language
Literary Elements
Story Problems
Miscellaneous
Plot Elements
100
I am so tired I could sleep for a year.
What is hyperbole?
100
A contrast between expectation and reality or appearance and reality.
What is Irony?
100
A struggle between opposing forces in a story or play, what the character needs to overcome.
What is the Conflict?
100

How we understand characters in a story? 

Speech, thoughts, effects on others, actions, and looks. 

100
All events following the climax or turning point in the story. These events are a result of the action taken at the climax
What is Falling Action?
200
The branches bowed to the ground.
What is personification?
200
Name the two ways an author can develop characters in a story.
What is direct and indirect characterization?
200

A plane crashes on a deserted island and a boy must survive what is the conflict?

What is Man vs Nature?

200

The feeling about a word

Connotation

200
Section that introduces characters, the setting, and conflicts
What is the Exposition?
300
Eek! I the bee buzzed by my head.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
Explain how an author develops the theme in a story.
through plot, life lessons of the characters, through symbolism, etc.
300

I can't decide what to do; do I volunteer to help the homeless shelter or go to my friend's party this Friday.

What is Man vs. Self?

300
The dictionary definition of a word

Denotation

300
Presents the highest point of interest and suspense in the story, the turning point in the story.
What is the Climax?
400
School is a prison.
What is a metaphor?
400
Explain how an author can use the setting to create mood?
time/place- descriptive language, imagery
400

The Fort Cherry track team is in the State Finals against the Keystone Oaks track team.

What is Man vs. Man?

400

What is the difference between static characters and stereotype characters?

Static characters stay the same. Stereotype characters are fixed ideas. 

400
Builds tension in the story, consists of a series of complications. These occur when the main characters take action to resolve their problems and are met with further problems.
What is a Rising Action?
500
It is as hot as the Sahara Desert.
What is a simile?
500

What are the 3 types of point of view an author can write in? 

1st person, 3rd person limited, and 3rd person omniscient

500

Man vs Self is an ________________ Conflict whereas Man vs Nature is an ________________Conflict.

What is Internal Conflict & External Conflict?

500

A repeating symbol in a story that hints at the theme of the story 

Motif

500
the conclusion of a story
What is the Resolution?
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