Plot Diagram
Characterization
Conflict
General
Literary Techniques
100
Events that build towards the climax
What is rising action
100
Main Character
What is Protaganist
100
The part of the story where conflict is introduced.
What is rising action
100
Type of character of Madame Loisel
What is Dynamic and round
100
Using as or like to compare something
What is simile
200
What are the different types of endings?
What is happy ending, unhappy ending, indeterminate
200
The villian/enemy of the protagonist
What is Antagonist
200
How many different conflicts can a character have. Name 3.
What is Man vs Man, Man vs Self, Man vs World
200
Characters, setting, storyline, and conflict make up ____
What is plot
200
putting opposite words together to make a point (ex. cold fire)
What is oxymoron
300
The point of the story that Miss Ralston plays baseball with the boys.
What is the climax
300
What kind of character was Madame Loisel in "The Necklace"
What is round and dynamic
300
The conflict in Lamb to the Slaughter
What is Man vs Self
300
The most exciting part of a short story
What is climax
300
to over exaggerate (I could eat a horse)
What is hyperbole
400
What type of ending was used in 'The Necklace'
What is indeterminate
400
The antagonist in 'Half a Gift'
What is Nick
400
Conflict in the Friday everything changed
What is Man vs Man or Man vs Society
400
Sexism and discrimination was the theme of what short story?
What is the friday that everything changed
400
A rhetorical device used usually for humor.
What is irony
500
List each point of the plot diagram using the short story "Half a Gift"
What is rising action: Both boys deciding to buy their mother a gift for mother's day. Climax: Mother getting the gift and being upset over the fact they gave her cleaning tools. Falling action: Father telling the mother that the boys will be cleaning for her from now on. Resolution: Mother is happy with the one gift as the other boy decided to not out-do his brother with his.
500
How did Madame Loisel change from the beginning of the story to the end?
What is In the beginning she was entitled, pretty, charming, and by the end, she was old, fat, ugly, peasant-ish.
500
The conflict in the necklace?
What is man vs man or man vs self
500
List the points of a plot diagram for the necklace
What is rising action: getting the necklace climax: losing the necklace falling action: working to pay off the necklace debt resolution: purchasing new necklace (wrongly)
500
The difference between simile and metaphor
What is simile using like or as, metaphor does not
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