Plot
Setting
Literary Terms
"Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket
Advanced Literary Terms
100
This is the name of the diagram that we use to show plot.
What is a Plot Structure Diagram
100
A story's emotional effect.
What is mood?
100
A series of events in a story.
What is plot?
100
The protagonist's name in "Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket".
What is Tom Benecke?
100
The major events that lead up to the climax of a story.
What is rising action?
200
This is a more sophisticated name for the basic situation.
What is exposition?
200
A writer's attitude towards a subject or character.
What is tone?
200
This is the character who is the focus of the story.
What is the main character or the protagonist?
200
This is the name of the protagonist's wife.
What is Clare?
200
A type of conflict in which a person struggles with him or herself.
What is internal conflict?
300
A type of order which begins at the beginning and then tells about each event in the order that it happens.
What is chronological order?
300
Setting can affect the struggle or problem in the story. Setting, then, affects the ______________.
What is conflict?
300
This is the time and location of a story.
What is setting?
300
Tom and Clare's apartment is on this floor.
What is the 11th floor?
300
This is a literary term when the opposite of what is expected happens.
What is irony?
400
A literary device that manipulates time by planting clues that hint at something that will happen later in the plot.
What is foreshadowing?
400
A description of setting in "Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket" suggests that the story was most likely written in this time.
What is a time before home computers became popular?
400
These are obstacles or mini-problems in a story...they can contribute to making a story funny, sad, interesting, or suspenseful.
What are plot complications?
400
The approximate length of time Tom is on the ledge.
What is around 8-10 minutes; the amount of time it takes for a cigarette to burn.
400
The time, place, and atmosphere of a story.
What is setting?
500
These are the 7 components on a plot structure diagram.
What is (1)exposition, (2)plot complications, (3)conflict, (4)climax, (5)resolution, (6)rising action and (7)falling action?
500
The story "Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket" has these two alliterative settings.
What are the living room and the ledge?
500
This is the beginning of the story: we are introduced to the characters and given information that we need to know to become interested in the story.
What is the basic situation or exposition?
500
This is the name of the author of "Contents".
What is Jack Finney?
500
This is the name for a story's message or an author's insight that he/she wants to share with us.
What is a theme?
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