Plot
The turning point of the story.
What is the climax?
The point of view that is told from the perspective of a character in the story.
What is 1st person point of view?
A person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
A protagonist.
What is the main character of a story called?
Mr. Higgins' 1st name.
What is Tyler?
The stage that introduces us to the protagonist and their "normal" life.
What is the exposition?
The point of view that is told from the perspective which makes it feel as if the story is happening to you.
What is 2nd person point of view?
The meaning of the word modest.
What is not talking much about your own abilities or possessions?
A conflict (in ELA).
What is a struggle that a character faces?
Mr. Higgins' cats.
Who are Betty and August?
The stage where something unexpected or unusual occurs that disrupts the protagonist's "normal" life.
What is the Inciting Incident?
The point of view where the story is being told form the perspective of a narrator who is not in the story.
What is 3rd person point of view?
The quality of being good and of deserving praise or reward
What is the definition of "merit?"
A theme (in ELA).
What is a life lesson or moral that you can learn from a fictional story?
1. The city where Mr. Higgins grew up.
~OR~
2. The name of Mr. Higgins' husband's bookstore.
(Choose one to answer, or answer both correctly for double points!)
1. What is Chicago?
2. What is The Mysterious Bookshop?
The six stages of the plot diagram in order from 1st to last.
What are the exposition, the inciting incident, the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution?
The specific point of view used to tell the story "Afternoon in Linen."
What is 3rd person limited point of view?
What is "showing strong disapproval or a failure to value somebody/something."
1. The definition of physical traits.
2. The definition of personality traits.
1. What are traits that refer to how a character looks, smells, and other characteristics one senses from "the outside?"
2. What are traits that refer to how a character acts, behaves, thinks, feels, and other characteristics though of as "inside" traits?
Mr. Higgins' astrological sign.
What is Taurus?
The term, of French origin, that is used interchangeably with "Falling Action."
What is denouement?
The meaning of the "-scient" suffix in 3rd person "omniscient," which comes from the Latin verb "scire."
What is "to know?"
At least 5 State of Being verbs.
What are "Is, Am, Are, Was, Were, Be, Being, Been?"
1. The definition of "mood" in ELA.
2. The definition of "tone" in ELA.
1. What is the feeling or atmosphere the author creates for the reader.
2. What is a writer's attitude towards a subject.
Mr. Higgins' Halloween costume from last year.
What is a "Werewolf of London," a reference to the song by Warren Zevon?