Story Structure
The series of events in a story is referred to as the _____.
Plot
Who is the father of rhetoric?
Aristotle
What term does this refer to? Words or phrases that appeal to the reader's sense of sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste.
Imagery / Sensory Language
When a character does not have depth they are referred to as _____. We are not provided with any deep knowledge of them.
Flat
What literary device is being used in the following?
She is a fierce tiger.
Metaphor
The primary character of a story is called the ________.
Protagonist
Red Herring, Bandwagon, Straw Man, Hasty Generalization are all examples of __________.
Logical Fallacies
What literary device does this refer to: The universal message of a story or the central idea, if it is an informative piece.
Provide an example of one as well.
theme
(Don't judge a book by it's cover, answers may vary)
A character that experiences growth throughout a story; this character has a change in perspective.
Dynamic
What literary device is used?
The skeletal trees rattled their naked branches as the cold and uncaring wind ran past them.
Personification
What is it called when a story has multiple overlapping plot-lines?
Parallel Plot
What type of rhetorical device is being used?
"Becky, he is no good for you! I dated Bill, and he was the worst the whole time!"
Ethos
What are the three categories of irony?
Situational
Dramatic
Verbal (Sarcasm as well)
Describe the characterization of the Wise Old Witch
Flat/Static
What are the four types of conflict?
Character vs. __________
Character vs. __________
Character vs. __________
Character vs. __________
Character (Person/Man)
Self
Nature
Society
A reoccurring type of character, plot element, or setting.
An archetype, motif, and or trope
What rhetorical devices are being used? (Consider what we have spoken about in class, multiple apply)
"But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate -- we cannot hallow--this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract."
Parallelism
Repetition
Pathos
What term does this refer to?
__________: A work of fiction that works on two levels - a literal level and a symbolic level.
Provide an example of one as well.
Allegory
(Examples May Vary: "Once Upon a Time" works though.)
Describe the characterization of the Wife from Once Upon a Time.
Flat/Round
and
Static/Dynamic
Flat/Static
What literary device is being used?
He was so hungry he could eat a horse.
Hyperbole; idiom would also work.
List the basic plot arc in sequence of what happens first and what happens last.
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution
What are the three parts of the Aristotelian triad?
Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
Name one of the three sources (author, text, or collection of stories) most commonly alluded to in Western (as in the cultures of the United States and Europe) culture.
Shakespeare
The Bible
Greek Mythology
Give me an example of a character that is round/dynamic.
Answers may vary.
Tone