The Tell Tale Heart
True or False. The main character is not going mad.
False
The exposition of a story includes
The setting and characters
Read the text below. What narrative element is it?
"If you could have another three wishes," said the old man, eyeing him keenly, "would you have them?"
Flashback
What does loquacious mean in the sentence below:
Maleek is very quiet and does not say a lot in class, while Stephan is often very loquacious.
Talkative
True or false: Person vs. World is a type of internal conflict
False
The author of the text is
Edgar Allan Poe
The first event that sets the plot in motion or the turning point that takes the protagonist from their everyday life and throws them into conflict.
Inciting Incident
What happened with the monkey's paw after Mr. White made his first wish?
It moved in his hand.
Asking a question, commenting on characters, and making connections with self, text, or world are examples of ...
Annotation
Give two examples of indirect characterization
Thoughts, words, actions, other characters' description
After the old man was killed, what did the narrator do to the body? (two things)
He dismembered the corpse and hid it under the floorboards.
The turning point or the most exciting part of the story is called
The Climax
Read the section of the story below. It is considered to be:
"I'd like to go to India myself," said the old man, "just to look round a bit, you know."
"Better where you are," said the sergeant-major, shaking his head. He put down the empty glass, and sighing softly, shook it again.
Foreshadowing
When we revise, we use the acronym, ARMS. What does ARMS stand for?
Add, Remove, Move Substitute
"An Olympic athlete pushes his performance to the limit despite his physical disability," is what type of conflict? (ie. person vs....)
person vs. self
The main character killed the old man by
Suffocating him with the bed
The moral, lesson, or message the author is trying to convey is ...
the theme.
What is the theme of the story?
Be careful what you wish for.
Don't mess with fate.
Creating a sense of setting, using sensory language, personifying Emotion, adding a dialogue, details, and examples are different ways we ...
Show, Don't Tell
"A group of teenagers sleep in a haunted house and begin disappearing one by one," is what type of conflict (ie. person vs.....)
person vs. the supernatural
"...for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his..."
Evil Eye
Read this scenario. What part of the plot diagram is this:
It was all over now. We should have never been arguing over Stephan anyway. He likes her, not me.
Falling action
Who cursed the monkey's paw?
The Indian Fakir
When we edit, we use the acronym CUPS. What does CUPS stand for?
Capitalization, Use (Grammar), Punctuation, Spelling/Spacing.
"A student takes his fight against the school dress code all the way to the Supreme Court," is what type of conflict (ie. person vs....)?
person vs. society