Story Elements
The time and location a story takes place
Setting
a figure of speech in which a thing, quality, or idea is represented as a person
personification
Fill in the blanks below with "theme" and "central idea":
_______ is USUALLY found in fiction, while
_______ is USUALLY found in nonfiction
Theme is usually found in fiction, while central idea is usually found in nonfiction.
What is a round character?
A character that has complex and contradicting personality traits.
One of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines.
Stanza
The problem or struggle in a story.
Conflict
a word or phrase used to compare two unlike things, using like or as.
Simile
The "central idea" is the same as the "topic" of the text.
False. The topic could be economics, school, space, etc. The central idea is a statement that tells what the author wanted you to learn about that TOPIC.
The terms "Round" and "Flat" describe a character's complexity, layers, or personality, while the terms "static" and "dynamic" describe a character's_________________________________.
Change or Development throughout the story.
The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words
alliteration
The main character who is often the hero of the story.
Protagonist
hyperbole
True or False? The theme topic is the same as the theme.
Example: People will do anything for the ones they love.
The character of the Grinch from Dr. Suess's "The Grinch" is best described by which of the following?
a) Round and Dynamic
b) Flat and Static
a) Round and Dynamic
The arrangement of rhymes in a poem or stanza (EX: ABABAB, AAB AAB)
rhyme scheme
What are the five types of conflict?
Person v Person, Person v Self, Person v Society, Person v Nature, Person v Technology (Machine)
a word or phrase used to compare two unlike objects, ideas, thoughts or feelings to provide a clearer description
metaphor
A monkey put his hand into the jar of cookies. He grasped as many as he could possibly hold, but when he tried to pull his hand, he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the cookie jar. Unwilling to lose the cookies, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and cried bitterly.
What is the theme?
If you are greedy, you might end up with nothing.
Joseph from "Orbiting Jupiter" is best desribed by which of the following:
a) Round and Dynamic
b) Flat and Static
a) Round and Dynamic
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
AABA BBCB
What was the main conflict of "Orbiting Jupiter"?
What categories of conflict could it be labeled as? You need to get two right to get the question.
Joseph finding Jupiter, person v person, person v society, person v self, person v nature, person v machine. ALL FIVE!
Using sensory language to create a picture in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Kelly had a job at the movie theater, but it didn't pay very much and she was sick of working there. Nonetheless, the work was steady and she needed all of the money that she could get. To her delight, Kelly got an interview at a big office downtown for a job that paid much more. The interview went very well and the bosses all but offered her a position. They said that she would fit the role well and they promised that they would call her back within two weeks. Kelly couldn't wait to quit her job at the movie theater. As soon as she got back she put in her two week notice. She spent the next two weeks bragging to her coworkers about her new high-paying job in the big city. Yet, two weeks passed and she received no phone call. When Kelly decided to follow up on her interview, she learned that the bosses had chosen a different candidate. Kelly was crushed.
What is the theme?
Don't count your chickens before they hatch!
Don't put all your eggs in one basket!
Don't put everything into one plan, have a back up, because you might end up losing everything.
Grandpa from "The Medicine Bag" is best described by which of the following?
a)Round and Dynamic
b)Flat and Static
b) Flat and Static
He made no development or change in the story, he remained with the same character traits that were all similar. (Respectful, Wise, Friendly, and Caring)
-I Wandered as Lonely as a Cloud 1) What type of figurative language is the title?
2) I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
What has this memory of the beautiful daffodils given the speak of this poem?
1) Simile
2) When the speaker is in a pensive (quiet and tense) mood, all they have to do is remember those beautiful dancing flowers and their mind is put to ease. They become happy like the "dancing" daffodils.