Plot Structure
What is the name for the beginning of the story, where the protagonist, setting, and other essential details are introduced?
Exposition
What are the 3 different types of third-person point of view that we learned about in class?
Objective, limited, omniscient
Which type of figurative language is an extreme exaggeration made in order to draw attention to a particular quality of a person or thing?
Hyperbole
What is symbolism?
The use of a thing in a story to represent another thing, person, or idea.
Setting includes what two main parts of a story?
Time & place
The climax
In which PoV is the narrator outside of the story, reporting only what characters are saying and doing without access to their inner thoughts and feelings?
Third person objective
Which type of irony can also be described as 'sarcasm'?
Verbal irony
What are the two different methods for creating symbols?
Direct connection and association
Imagery relies on what kind of details to create a mental image for the reader?
Sensory details.
What is the proper name for the end of the story, where the author addresses how each character's life goes on after the journey ends?
The resolution
Describe/define second person point of view.
When the narrator speaks to the reader directly using the pronoun 'you' as if the reader were a character in the story.
What is dramatic irony?
When the reader knows more about what is happening in the story than one or more of the characters.
In The Mask of the Red Death, what does the large clock in the black room symbolize and why?
The approach of death/time running out
Which sense is appealed to in olfactory imagery?
Smell
What part of the narrative structure would this passage most likely fit into?
Maya slipped the missing key into her pocket as footsteps echoed outside the office. She hurried toward the window, but it would not open. The footsteps stopped, and someone began turning the door handle. She ducked behind the desk, holding her breath as a thin line of light spread across the floor.
The rising action
Identify the point of view of the following passage.
Lena stood outside the classroom, afraid her new classmates would laugh if she introduced herself. Inside, Marcus watched the door, hoping the new student would sit beside him. Their teacher smiled as she arranged the desks, remembering how nervous she had felt on her own first day. None of them expected that a simple group assignment would bring them together.
Third person omniscient
Identify the type of figurative language used in the following example.
The jealous fog stole the mountains from the morning sky and refused to give them back.
Personification
What could the plant symbolize in the following example?
A man who just moved into town gives another character, their new neighbor, a houseplant that grows and blooms as the two become friends, but it begins to wilt and die when they have a major disagreement.
Friendship between the two characters.
What kind of imagery is used in the following passage?
The rough rope scraped Mia’s palms as she pulled herself up. Cold rain soaked through her sleeves, making her shiver.
Tactile