Character Analysis
a static character in the story
What/Who is a character in a short story that doesn't change?
“His father’s words, like the distant thunder that now echoed through the streets of Harlem, still rumbled softly in his ears”
What is simile? or What is an example of simile?
Harlem, New York
What is the setting of this story?
The most exciting part of the story where everything begins to change.
What is the climax of a story?
The story comes to some type of a reasonable ending.
What happens in the resolution of a story?
a dynamic character in the story
Who/What is a character in a short story that does change?
treating something not human as if it were human
What is personification?
Greg, Lemon Brown, the gang of thieves, Mr. Ridley
Who are the characters in the story?
The Community Center basketball team
Who are/were the Scorpions?
“Don’t try nothin’, cause I got a razor here sharp enough to cut a week into nine days!”
What did Lemon Brown say to Greg (before he knew him)
internal and external
What is conflict?
exaggeration for effect
What is hyperbole?
The road is a ribbon of moonlight.
Hint: Figurative language
What is metaphor?
The sequence of events in the story
What is the plot?
Hint: ryhme scheme for this poem
I sat on a log
The log in a bog
I talked to my cat
Who sat near my feet.
What is an example of an aabc rhyme scheme?
hero in the short story
What is the protagonist?
understood comparison of two unlike things
What is a metaphor?
Everyone has something they ________regardless of their circumstances in life.
What is a treasure?
The first part of a plot diagram. This part of the story introduces the characters, the setting, and the problem/conflict in the story.
What is the exposition of a story?
There are two types of figurative language used in this sentence: The kitten was a wild beast attacking the string.
What is an example of hyperbole and metaphor.
villain or "the bad guy"
What is the antagonist?
Someone tapping, tapping at my chamber door
What are alliteration and onomatopoeia?
The rain caused Greg to run there for cover and safety.
What was the abandoned building?
Lemon Brown sees this person in Greg
Who is his son, Jesse?
Correct these sentences. i seen this man that was like cray!!!!!!! i ran away from him cause i was toats scared of what i seen :))))
What is: I saw a man that was crazy. I ran away from him because I was afraid of what I saw.