Affixes and Roots/Bases
A prefix that means before.
What is pre-?
The beginning of a story. It includes the setting, the situation, and the characters.
What is the exposition?
All the events leading to the climax in a story.
What is the rising action?
The protagonist in Fox.
Who is Magpie?
The people, animals or objects in a story that have thoughts, feelings or talk.
Who are the characters?
A suffix that means someone who performs an action.
What is -ist?
All the events in a story.
What is the plot?
The turning point of a story (the highest tension).
What is the climax?
The antagonist in Fox.
Who is Fox?
Narrative element when Fox whispers 3 times to Magpie to try to convice her to leave Dog.
What is rising action?
A prefix that means against.
What is anti-?
The main character in a story.
Who is the protagonist?
All the events leading to the end of the story.
What is the falling action?
The setting in Fox (must name all 4 to get it right).
What is the forest ,the cave, the river, and the desert?
Word parts that are attached to the beginning of root or base words and change the meaning of the word.
What are prefixes?
A root word that means a struggle.
What is agon?
The end of the story where the moral or lesson is learned and the conlict is solved.
What is the resolution?
The climax in Fox.
What is when Magpie decides to go with Fox?
Narrative element when Magpie decides to begin the long journey home to be with Dog again.
What is the resolution?
A root word that means first.
What is protos?
The main problem or struggle in a story.
What is the conflict?
The main message of the story--the lesson/moral to be learned.
What is the theme?
Be careful who you trust.
What is one of the themes of Fox?
Word parts that are added to the end of root or base words to change the meaning of the word.
What are suffixes?