Elements of Plot
the End of the story
What is the resolution?
Who are the main characters?
Who are Sully and Scoot?
The platform on a boat or a ship where people stand.
What is a Deck?
The struggle between two opposing forces.
What is Conflict?
A group of words that conveys a complete thought and is the largest grammatical unit in language.
What is a sentence?
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling action, and resolution.
What are the 5 elements of a plot?
Mariners identify these killer waves as this.
What are Rogue Waves?
A device used to act as a guide on a planned course.
What is Navigation?
Anticipation leading to the main event in a story that makes readers wonder or worry.
What is suspense?
A sentence that has one independent clause. It contains a subject and a verb.
ex. Jamal bought some new pair of Jordans.
What is a simple sentence?
The most exciting part of the story, when we learn the outcome.
What is the climax?
What is the origin of the specific Rogue Wave from the text?
What is the coast of Australia?
A long unbroken wave.
What is a Swell wave?
The two types of conflicts.
What are Internal and external conflicts?
Type of sentence formed by two or more independent clauses, linked by a conjunctive adverb, linking word, conjunction, or semicolon.
ex: Tiffany bought new Balenciaga shoes, but Jennifer bought books.
What is a compound sentence?
Where the main character faces a series of conflicts.
What is the Rising Action?
The name of the boat Sully and Scoot are on.
What is the Sea Dog?
A circular Window on a boat or ship.
What is a porthole?
Authors use these things to build suspense.
What are Story questions and Word Referents?
A sentence that's formed by two or more independent clauses, linked together by a conjunctive adverb, linking word, conjunction, or semicolon.
ex: Although Brittany bought a new Stanley Cup; Christina bought a Mac Book.
What is a Complex sentence?
Beginning of the story where characters and setting are introduced.
What is the Exposition?
The builder of the Sea Dog.
Who is Ta-Shing of Taiwan?
To descend below the surface of water.
What is submerging?
The 3 types of external conflicts.
What is Character vs. Character, Character vs. Nature, and Character vs. Society?
A combination of complex and compound sentences, formed of dependent and independent clauses, linked with coordinating conjunction.
ex: While Aria bought a dress, Lisa bought books, but Matt only bought a pen.
What is a compound complex sentence?