Terminology
What is a narrator?
The person or character who tells the events of a story
What are the pronouns that you use to identify first person point of view?
I, me, my, we, our, ourselves
What is the definition of an internal conflict?
When a character has a problem with themselves
What is the conflict of a story?
The highest point of interest or intensity, or a turning point in the story
What does the sequence of a text mean?
The correct order of events
What is a theme?
The lesson or moral of a story
What are the pronouns you use to identify third person point of view?
he, she, they, them, theirs, hers, his,
What is the definition of an external conflict?
When a character has a problem with an outside force
What term refers to the events that add to the problem of the story or make the story more intense?
Rising Actions
When you use text evidence, what type of punctuation has to appear around your evidence?
quotation marks
What is an inference?
A conclusion made from text evidence and background knowledge
What is first person point of view?
When the narrator is a character in the story who describes events from their perspective.
In a story where the main character is running from an angry robot, what kind of conflict is there?
Character vs. technology
What part of the plot includes background information that helps to set up the story?
exposition
What pronouns are you NOT allowed to use when writing a RACE response unless they're in a quote?
I, me, my, we
What is the mood of a story?
How the characters are feeling in a story
What is third person limited?
When the narrator is not a character in the story and only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Billy is going to school but he is nervous because he has a test today that he hasn't studied for. In this story, what is the most likely type of conflict?
Character vs. self
What is the part of the story that brings the conflict to an end?
resolution
When filling out a plot diagram, you can have more than one _________ in a story, but you don't always have to have a ______________________.
theme; resolution
What is the tone of a story?
How the author describes the setting or situation
What is third person omniscient?
When the narrator is not a character in the story and we know the thoughts and feelings of all characters.
What are the different types of external conflicts discussed in class?
character vs. character, character vs. society, character vs. technology, character vs. nature, character vs. the supernatural
What part of the plot refers to the events that help wind down the story?
falling actions
What parts of a story are not included in a sequence of events because they happened before the start of the story?
flashbacks