Characters
Elements of a Story
Point of View
Take a Chance
All About Mrs. Wedge
100

The main character of a story.

Who is the protagonist?

100

The time, place, and situation (weather, climate) of a story.

What is the setting?

100

When a story is told from the perspective of a character within the story.  

What is First Person Point of View/Perspective?

100

The five points on a plot line.

What are the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution/denouement?

100

Mrs. Wedge's can ALWAYS be seen with one of these in her hand in the morning.

What is a Dunkin' Donuts coffee?

200

The character opposed to the main character of the story.  (AKA The "Bad Guy")

Who is the antagonist?

200

The sequence of events that make up the story.

What is the plot?

200

When a story is told from an OUTSIDE narrator.

What is Third-Person Point of View/Perspective?

200

The four types of conflict.

What are man vs. self, man vs. man, man vs. nature, and man vs. society?

200

Mrs. Wedge's favorite water to drink.

What is Fiji water?

300

A character who stays the same over the course of a story.

What is a static character?

300

The people, animals, objects "play out" the story.

What are characters?

300

When a story is told from an outside narrator and the reader knows none of the character's inner thoughts.

What is Third-Person Objective Point of View?

300

a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid using the words LIKE or AS.

What is a simile?

300

Her LEAST favorite living thing.

What are moths?

400

A character who changes over the course of a story.

What is a dynamic character?

400

The perspective in which a story is told.

What is Point of View?

400

When a story is told from an outside narrator and the reader knows ONE character's inner thoughts or emotions.

What is Third-Person Limited Point of View?

400

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

What is a metaphor?

400

The town in which she resides.

What is Belgrade?

500
The main character who is opposed to him/herself.

What is an anti-hero?

500

The problem that the main character must try to overcome by the end of the story.

What is conflict?

500

When a story is told by an outside narrator and the reader knows ALL the characters inner thoughts and emotions.

What is Third-Person Omniscient Point of View?

500

a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.

What is an inference?

500

The number of years she has taught at CMS.

What is 10 years?

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