Conflict
Where the Red Fern Grows
Plot Elements
Figurative Language
Character Traits and Theme
100

The only type of internal conflict.

What is character vs. self?

100

This is the author of Where the Red Fern Grows.

Who is Wilson Rawls?
100

Characters and setting are described in this plot element.

What is Exposition?

100

This type of figurative language gives human traits to nonliving things. 

What is personification?

100

This type of characterization tells you directly what a character is like.

What is direct characterization?

200

This type of conflict involves issues with man-made creations (robots, cell phones, computers, etc.).

What is Character vs. Technology?

200

This is the setting of Where the Red Fern Grows.

What are The Ozarks?

200

This plot element is where the conflict starts to build in a story.

What is rising action?

200

This type of figurative language describes and is sound! 

What is onomatopoeia? 

200

This type of characterization requires making inferences about a character's traits.

What is indirect characterization?

300

This type of conflict involves ghosts, vampires, zombies, and other out-of-this-world beings.

What is Character vs. Supernatural?

300

This is how Little Ann and Old Dan got their names.

What is the carving on the sycamore tree?

300

This is the point of greatest tension in a story.

What is the climax?

300

This type of figurative language directly compares two unlike things.

What is a metaphor?

300
This is the moral or lesson from a story.

What is theme?

400

Billy Colman's encounters with mountain lions (cougars) could be described as this type of conflict.

What is Character vs. Nature?

400

This is the name of the character who fell on their axe and died.

Who was Rubin Pritchard? 
400

This is where conflict starts to resolve in a story.

What is falling action?

400

This type of figurative language involves extreme exaggeration to make a point.

What is hyperbole?

400

In this story, one theme was hard work and dedication pay off.

What is Where the Red Fern Grows?

500
There are five subcategories of external conflict

What is:

Character vs. Character

Character vs. Society

Character vs. Technology

Character vs. Nature

Character vs. Supernatural

500

This is where the red fern grows...

What is Little Ann and Old Dan's gravesite? 

500

This is where a story wraps up.

What is the resolution?

500

This type of figurative language uses figures of speech to mean something else (You must have woken up on the wrong side of the bed today).

What is Idiom?

500

"Every day at lunch, Billy Bob sits at a different table, chatting with all of the students." This tells us Billy Bob is...

What is friendly/outgoing/kind?

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