Plot Line
Types of Conflict
Comparisons and Figures of Speech
Things we Write
Analyzing a story
100
the portion that gives the background or situation surrounding the story
What is exposition?
100
One character in a story has a problem with one or more of the other characters
What is person vs. person?
100
a comparison of two similar objects
What is an analogy
100
is the author's account of his or her own life
What is an autobiography?
100
is the method the author uses to reveal characters and their personalities
What is characterization?
200
the series of struggles that leads to the climax
What is the rising action?
200
A character has a problem with some elements of society: the school, the law, the accepted way of doing things
What is person vs. society?
200
a comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as
What is simile?
200
is the story of a person's life written by another person
What is a biography?
200
refers to the category or type of literature based on its style, form, and content.
What is genre?
300
the most intense part of the story
What is the climax?
300
A character has a problem deciding what to do in a certain situation
What is person vs. self?
300
a comparison of two unlike things without using the words like or as
What is metaphor?
300
is a piece of prose that expresses an individual's point of view
What is an essay?
300
is the particular value or lesson the author is trying to get across to the reader
What is the moral?
400
works out the decision arrived at during the climax
What is the falling action?
400
A character has a problem with nature: heat, cold, a tornado, an avalanche, or any other element of nature.
What is person vs. nature?
400
an exaggeration or overstatement
What is hyperbole?
400
a literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm
What is poetry?
400
is the vantage point from which the story is told
What is the point of view?
500
the problem is solved
What is the resolution or denouement?
500
A character must battle with what seems to an uncontrollable problem.
What is person vs. fate?
500
language used to craete a special effect of feeling
What is figurative language?
500
presents your skills, knowledge, and experiences-to a prospective employer
What is a resume?
500
is the statement about life that a writer is trying to get across in a piece of writing
What is the theme?
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