Plot Diagram
This is the beginning of the story.
What is the introduction or exposition?
A strong, arguable stance on a story.
What is a thesis or a thesis statement?
A story of two feuding men who are trapped beneath a fallen tree as wolves come over the rise.
What is "The Interlopers"?
Word used to identify a person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
Reading/Writing time is this.
What is Quiet Time?
The part of a story when the plot ends and some story questions are answered.
What is the conclusion or denouement?
A form of literary critique that examines the story on how it handles women.
What is feminist theory?
Story of a young boy who attempts to steal a purse to buy shoes, only to be cared for by the woman he intended to rob.
What is "Thank you Ma'am"?
Word used to indicate an action.
What is a verb?
What is Jolly Ranchers?
In this section of the story, tension begins to reduce, leading toward the ending.
What is the falling action?
A comparison that does not use "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
A man is stranded on a jungle island only to find out he is to be hunted for sport.
What is "The Most Dangerous Game"?
This word connects two independent clauses after a comma.
What is a conjunction?
A gamified lesson plan that all of his 7th graders loved using.
What is ClassCraft?
This is the highest point of tension in the story.
What is the climax?
Looking at a story from the perspective of how the mind works, and how characters might be motivated by their subconscious.
What is psychoanalytic theory?
A young girl wanders into the woods to pick flowers only to find the skeletal body of a hanged black man.
What is "The Flowers"?
This is a word that is used to indicate location.
What is a preposition?
An award-winning film where he was the cinematographer.
What is "Lilac Gulch"?
Here, the action begins to build and ramp up.
What is the rising action?
The name of a protagonist that lacks heroic attributes.
What is an anti-hero?
Known as possibly the greatest story in history, this is a dystopian tale of a young boy chosen to be the memory keeper, but he discovers the horrible secret behind this seemingly perfect society.
What is "The Giver"?
This is what is required for a sentence to be an independent clause rather than a fragment.
His favorite job.
What is teaching?