What is the chain of related events that take place in a story?
What is plot
100
Who is the lead character in the conflict?
What is protagonist
100
Who is the author of "Of Mice and Men"?
What is John Steinbeck
100
What is a person place, thing or idea?
What is a noun
200
The vantage point from which the story is told. The lens through which the reader views the story.
What is point of view
200
Where is background information given, characters met, setting and mood established, and conflict set up?
What is exposition
200
What is a character that is not directly involved in the conflict
What is minor
200
Name one example of historical context in this book
What is the Great Depression, banned book, minorities and women, cognitive disability.
200
List three different kinds of pronouns
What is personal, possessive, objective, reflexive, intensive, interrogative, relative, demonstrative, inndefinate
300
A central idea, meaning, life lesson, or moral of a story. This is a universal concept.
What is theme
300
The result or end of a story.
What is resolution
300
What is a character that has been developed throughout the story
What is round
300
What is one theme of the book?
What is the nature of dreams, loneliness, authority vs. powerlessness, individualism vs. communal responsibility.
300
Name 23 helping verbs
What is am, is, are, was, were, being, been, be, have, has, had, do, does, did, shall, will, should, would, may, might, must, can, could
400
What are the four types of point of view?
What is first person, third person objective, third person limited, third person omniscient
400
The periods of time between the exposition and climax and climax and resolution.
What is ascending action, descending action
400
What is a character who has an internal change throughout the story?
What is dynamic
400
How did Of Mice and Men get its name?
What is the poem of To a Mouse
400
What is one trick for determining if a word is a linking verb or not?
Replace the verb with a form of "seems," as "seems" is always a linking verb.
500
List the five kinds of imagery
What is visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, gustatory imagery
500
The turning point of the story
What is climax
500
Explain STEAL
S - speech, what the character says, how
T - thoughts, what is revealed through the characters thoughts
E - effect, what is revealed through the characters effect on others
A - actions, what does the character do, how does the character behave
L - looks, what does the character look like, how do they dress
500
Compare Lennie Small to Johnny Bear
What is answers may vary
500
Name the four kinds of conjunctions
What is coordinating, correlative, subordinating, conjunctive adverbs