Story Elements
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?
Dystopian stories often feature one of (or a combination of) these two common protagonists:
What is the born rebel and the evolved rebel?
The themes of faith, guilt, and good versus evil are explored in this story.
What is Young Goodman Brown?
Giving an animal or object human characteristics.
What is personification?
The story is told by one of the characters, using the pronouns I, me, and my.
What is first person?
The main character in a selection, usually the “good guy”
Who is the protagonist?
A place that is ideally perfect with perfect laws, customs, and conditions.
What is utopia?
The importance of questioning tradition, and the relationship between civilization and violence are themes from this short story.
What is The Lottery?
Comparing two unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
The point of view that uses the pronoun you
What is second person point of view?
The high point, or turning point, in a story—usually the most intense point near the end of a story
What is the climax?
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?
Equality, individual exceptionalism, and freedom are the main message in this story.
What is Harrison Bergeron?
the repetition of beginning consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
The author describes the geographical location, the physical surroundings, the historical period in which the story is set
What is setting?
An internal conflict – a character wrestles with his or her conscience about what is right
What is a man versus self conflict?
These characteristics are central to the creation of a dystopian society:
What is backstory, conflict, and systems of control?
Daily Double: Place a Wager
Fear, suppression, control, freedom and acceptance are all themes from this short story.
What is Examination Day?
A phrase that says one thing but means something else.
What is an idiom?
The manner in which an author uses words, constructs sentences, incorporates non-literal expressions, and handles rhythm, timing, and tone
What is style?
The portion of a play or story where the problem is solved
What is the resolution?
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?
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?
Exaggeration; when the author stretches the truth
What is hyperbole?
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?