Story Elements
Dystopian Genre
Story Themes
Figurative Language
Point of View
100

The events in a story that move the plot forward, involving conflicts and complications, and builds toward the climax of the story.

What is rising action?

100

Dystopian stories often feature one of (or a combination of) these two common protagonists: 

What is the born rebel and the evolved rebel?

100

The themes of faith, guilt, and good versus evil are explored in this story.

What is Young Goodman Brown?

100

Giving an animal or object human characteristics.

What is personification?

100

The story is told by one of the characters, using the pronouns I, me, and my.

What is first person?

200

The main character in a selection, usually the “good guy”

Who is the protagonist?

200

A place that is ideally perfect with perfect laws, customs, and conditions.

What is utopia?

200

The importance of questioning tradition, and the relationship between civilization and violence are themes from this short story.

What is The Lottery?

200

Comparing two unlike things using like or as.

What is a simile?

200

The point of view that uses the pronoun you

What is second person point of view?

300

The high point, or turning point, in a story—usually the most intense point near the end of a story 

What is the climax?

300

Dystopian fiction sets out to criticize loss of freedom by creating conflict through Corporate control, bureaucratic control, technological control or philosophical/religious control.

What are types of controls in dystopian fiction?

300

Equality, individual exceptionalism, and freedom are the main message in this story.

What is Harrison Bergeron?

300

the repetition of beginning consonant sounds

What is alliteration?

300

The author describes the geographical location, the physical surroundings, the historical period in which the story is set 

What is setting?

400

An internal conflict – a character wrestles with his or her conscience about what is right

What is a man versus self conflict?

400

These characteristics are central to the creation of a dystopian society:

What is backstory, conflict, and systems of control?

400

Daily Double: Place a Wager

 

Fear, suppression, control, freedom and acceptance are all themes from this short story.

What is Examination Day?

400

A phrase that says one thing but means something else.

What is an idiom?

400

The manner in which an author uses words, constructs sentences, incorporates non-literal expressions, and handles rhythm, timing, and tone 

What is style?

500

The portion of a play or story where the problem is solved 

What is the resolution?

500

the opposite of utopian literature. A story about a world where usually the government is controlling every decision of the general public 

What is dystopian literature?

500

The dangers of nuclear warfare, the power of technology, and the omnipotence of death are the central themes in this short story:

What is There Will Come Soft Rains?

500

Exaggeration; when the author stretches the truth

What is hyperbole?

500

The narrator sees and hears ALL events, thoughts, and actions of ALL of the characters in a selection, uses the pronouns he, she, her, they and them

What is third person, omniscient?

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