Vocabulary
Plot Terms
Important Terms
Literary Terms
Misc.
100
Hot and humid; sweltering
What is sultry?
100
Sequence of related events that make a story hang together.
What is plot?
100
The uncertainty or anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
What is suspense?
100
The time and place of a story.
What is setting?
100
Greed, injustice, cruelty, stupidity and deceit.
What are the 5 targets of satire?
200
Continuing
What is persistent?
200
The first part of the plot that presents the main characters and their conflicts.
What is exposition?
200
When a conflict arises with an outside force.
What is external conflict?
200
The voice of the story.
What is narrator?
200
The four elements of setting.
What are time and place, to show atmosphere, to reveal characteristics and to provide conflict?
300
Something that distracts attention
What is diversion?
300
Events which cause the original plan to go off task and cause new problems.
What is complications?
300
A struggle inside your own heart or mind.
What is internal conflict?
300
The point from which a story is told. Will give us information about if we have a narrator and who it is.
What is point of view?
300
The reason a person writes something.
What is author's purpose?
400
Impatient; irritable; peevish
What is petulant?
400
The story's most suspenseful moment. When something happens that decides the end of the story.
What is climax?
400
Visiting a characters future.
What is flash-forward?
400
An all knowing narrator who is not a character in the story.
What is omniscient narrator?
400
Christina had promised her mom that she would help go food shopping on Sunday morning. Saturday night Christina's friend called and asked her to go to the beach on Sunday.
What is an internal conflict because she has to decide if it is more important to keep her promise to her mom or to go to the beach?
500
Sharp reply
What is retort?
500
When the problems are solved and the story ends
What is denouement?
500
Visiting a character's past
What is flashback?
500
Any writing that ridicules something to bring about change.
What is satire?
500
On Friday GWHS will play a football game against Fels HS. The game will be broadcast on 6 abc. During the game they will be announcing the winner of the High School Huddle Spirit Competition.
What is the author's purpose to inform?
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