Characterization
These are the two types of characterization.
What is indirect and direct characterization?
The five phases of plot.
What are exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
These words often end in "-ly"
What are adverbs?
The narrator's attitude towards the situation.
What is tone?
This word is used to describe when the setting of a story is a city.
What is "urban"?
This type of character changes over the course of a story.
What is a dynamic character?
The three types of external conflict.
What are character versus character, character versus nature, and character versus society?
These words may end in "-tion" or "-ness."
What are abstract nouns?
The feeling the text creates for readers.
What is mood?
This word is used to describe the setting of a story that takes place in a city.
What is "urban"?
This type of character stays the same over the course of a story.
What is a static character?
The majority of a plot is made up of this phase.
What is the rising action?
These are the two types of pronouns, and an example of each.
What are subject pronouns ("I") and object pronouns ("us")?
These are two ways an author creates a tone in a text.
What are: word choice, description of a setting, punctuation, character's actions/reactions, etc.?
This is a conclusion you draw based on hints.
What is an inference?
Read this passage:
"We wore our best dresses to make a good impression. Rachel wore her green linen Easter suit she was so fond of, and her long whitish hair pulled off her forehead with a wide pink elastic hairband…. Sitting next to me on the plane, she kept batting her white rabbit eyelashes and adjusting her bright pink hairband, trying to get me to notice she had secretly painted her fingernails bubble-gum pink to match. (p. 15)"
The key personality trait that is revealed here is __________ and the method used to reveal the trait is _________________.
What is self-absorbed/vain/self-conscious?
What is character's actions or character's physical description?
These are two ways of determining the climax of a story.
What are: 1) seeing when you can answer the conflict question or 2) looking for a turning point for the protagonist or where s/he changes?
These are the 8 parts of speech.
What are: nouns, adjectives, pronouns, interjections, conjunctions, adverbs, prepositions, and verbs?
This is a well-chosen word to describe the overall tone and a well-chosen word to describe the overall mood of "Saved by a Seal" (at least during the rising action).
What is suspenseful [tone]?
What is apprehensive/anxious/worried?
This word is used to describe when the setting of a story is a town -- neither a city nor the countryside.
What is suburban?
These are five methods of indirect characterization.
What are: character's words, character's thoughts, character's feelings, character's physical description, character's actions/reactions, other character's words or reactions?
The word for when an author hints at what is going to happen later in the story (i.e. by describing a gun in the drawer).
What is foreshadowing?
The four categories that the word "well" could fit into.
What are: adverb, adjective, interjection and noun.
This is the significant difference between a topic and a theme.
What is the fact that a theme is typically multiple words, and tells what an author is claiming or teaching us about a topic?
This word means very careful and precise.
What is "meticulous"?