Plot Diagram
The beginning of the story where characters and setting are introduced
What is the Exposition?
Name a Step in Stage 3
What is The Refusal of the Return, The Magic Flight, Rescue from Without, and The Crossing or Return Threshold?
The story's exposition introduces the hero, and soon the hero's normal life is disrupted.
What is the Call to Adventure.
Another English term for stereotype or template
What is an Archetype?
Bang, boom, pow, and clank
What is Onomatopeia?
The most exciting part of the story: When we learn the outcome
What is Climax?
Name the Steps in Stage 1
What is The Call to Adventure, Refusal of the Call, and The Beginning of the Adventure?
The story reaches the climax and the hero achieves the goal.
What is the Ultimate Boon?
A character, symbol, story pattern, or other element that is common to human experience across cultures and that occurs frequently in literature, myth, and folklore
What is an Archetype?
The sun is as shiny as Myra's diamond ring.
What is a Simile?
Events leading to the end of the story
What is the Falling Action?
The step when the hero may not want to head back home after the climax of the story.
What is Refusal of the Return?
The rising action develops with a set a challenges that teach the hero important skills.
What is the Road of Trials?
A sequence of related events that make up a story or novel
What is a Plot?
The moon smiled at me.
What is Personification?
Where the main character faces a series of conflicts
What is the Rising Action?
What is Refusal of the Call?
Just as it looks like the the hero will not make it home during the falling action, a mentor swoops in to assist.
What is Rescue from Without?
A struggle between opposing forces
What is a Conflict?
I am so hungry, I can eat a million sundaes!
What is Hyperbole?
End of the story and the step that contains it in the Hero's Journey
What is the Resolution and the Crossing/Return Threshold?
The two steps of the Hero's Journey that contain a mentor.
What are The Experience with Unconditional Love and Rescue from Without?
For some heroes, the journey home can be dangerous and he/she must face one last speedbump before going home.
What is The Magic Flight?
The overall emotion, which is created by the author's language and tone and the subject matter
What is Mood?
The moon was a flashlight, illuminating the dark field.
What is a metaphor?