These are the five elements of plot in the "typical" order they are found.
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement.
100
The main character in a story that is trying to achieve a goal.
Name this person from "Miracle on 34th Street"
Name this person from "Toy Story"
Who is the protagonist?
Santa, Susie, Mr. Gailey
Woody
100
A conflict that exists within the mind of a character that is torn between 2 forces.
What is internal conflict?
Give an example from any of the stories or from life experience.
100
Another name for the climax and the point in "Toy Story" or "Miracle on 34th Street" where this occurred.
What is turning point?
When the toys are save by the Big Claw.
When Santa is declared the REAL Santa Clause by the judge.
100
This is the point of view a story is written in when a story is narrated by a character in the story like "To Kill a Mockingbird".
What is first person
200
Powerful words help the author to create this element in a story.
What is tone?
200
This is an antagonist to Madame Loisel
What is pride, poverty, greed, desire, selfishness, bitterness
200
This is conflict from a character's struggles with some outside force.
What is external conflict?
Give an example from any of the stories or from outside experience.
200
The action that follows the climax of the story.
Describe this point in "Toy Story"
Describe this point in "Miracle on 34th Street"
What is falling action.
The toys are back ta Andy's saying goodbye to Woody.
The party after the trial
200
This is the point of view a story is written in when the story is narrated by someone no in the story like "Two Friends".
What is 3rd person?
300
"Besieged Paris was in the throws of famine. Even the sparrows on the roofs and the rats in the sewers were growing scarce. People were eating anything they could get". In this quote from Two Friends, the connotative meanings of famine, rats, sewers, and scare are ALL this.
What is negative?
300
Santa would be considered a protagonist in Miracle on 34th Street because of this.
Woody would be considered a protagonist in Toy Story because of this.
What is his desire to have everyone be kinder, nicer, or believe in themselves - to believe in hope and goodness.
What is his desire to get all of the toys back to Andy's attic safe and sound.
300
When the antagonist is another person, this type of conflict occurs.
What is Man vs. Man
Give an example
300
The big idea or lesson in a story
What is the theme?
Identify the theme from "Two Friends"
300
The author uses this technique to make the character "come alive" to the reader by telling us what the characters says, does, and thinks.
What is characterization?
400
This literary element from The Necklace can be represented by the following words: "The pursuit of possessions can never fulfill our desires".
What is the theme?
400
These are two of many antagonists in "Two Friends".
What are enemy soldiers, guns, the war, the fence, the password, etc.
400
When the conflict for the protagonist is created by weather, survival, wildlife etc.,
What is Man vs. Nature
Give an example
400
This is created by powerful words the the author uses.
What is tone
400
Susie yells for Mr. Gailey to stop the car and they all go running into the perfect house with a swing in the backyard. Then they see Santa's cane leaning up against the fireplace is this part of "Miracle on 34th Street".
Andy driving off in his car waving good-bye to Woody and the other toys on the front porch with their new little girl is this part of "Toy Story".
What is the denouement? (resolution)
500
The two elements of figurative language that can be found in the following quote from "Two Friends"
"The two friends, pale as death, stood silently side by side, a slight fluttering of the hands alone betraying their emotion."
What is simile and alliteration?
500
Mr. Loisel is a characters that can be considered BOTH a protagonist and an antagonist because of these reasons.
What is he is poor and is keeping Madame Loisel from having the things she wants.
What is he is striving to repay the debt that was incurred because of the lost necklace.
500
When the conflict for the protagonist is created by a group of people, and organization, or an idea or belief.
What is Man vs. Society
Give an example
500
This is the part of the plot where complications and conflicts are added to the story.
What is rising action?
Identify 3 conflicts in the rising action of "Toy Story"
Identify 3 conflicts in the rising action of "Miracle on 34th"
500
This is the part of "The Necklace" where we first learn about Mathilde's belief that she had been cheated by life because she was poor.