The sequence of connected events of a story, including the basic situation or exposition, the conflict, the complications, the climax, and the resolution.
What is the plot?
100
Conflict that occurs within the mind of a character; man vs. self.
What is internal conflict?
100
The two kinds of daughter that Jing-Mei's mother says there are.
What is independent and obedient?
100
What Mama, the narrator, dreams about having with her daughter, Dee, in the beginning of "Everyday Use."
What is a happy reunion on TV?
100
The character that stands in the way of the main character getting what they want.
What is the antagonist?
200
Where and when a story takes place, including everything about the environment of the story.
What is setting?
200
An author tells you about a character through direct statements through this.
What is direct characterization?
200
Jing-Mei's mother left these behind when she left China.
What are her parents, her first husband, and her two twin daughters?
200
The reason Maggie is so shy about letting people see her.
What is her burns from the house fire?
200
This is when the author shows about a character through showing the character's actions, their interactions with other characters, and how other characters react to them.
What is indirect characterization?
300
Clues that are left in a story to tell you what is going to happen next in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
300
The main character of a story.
What is the protagonist?
300
Jing-Mei brings these up when she is upset with her mother and wants to hurt her emotionally.
What are her dead children?
300
Dee wants to display this through the quilts; Maggie and Mama want to live it through using the quilts.
What is heritage?
300
An educated guess you make about a subject or story based on partial information.
What is an inference?
400
A way for you to imagine a story, seeing events of the story in your mind.
What is visualization?
400
A character with multiple dimensions or character traits; a "real" character.
What is a round character?
400
The instrument that Jing-Mei learned - or didn't learn - to play.
What is the piano?
400
Dee says Maggie has a brain of one of these animals, when she remembers key details about the butter churn.
What is an elephant?
400
A story can move back into the past of a character through one of these.
What is a flashback?
500
The central thought or purpose of a piece of writing.
What is the main idea?
500
When a story is written, but not necessarily when a story is set; the historical event that surround the writing of a story.
What is the historical context?
500
This is what Jing-Mei's mother wants Jing-Mei to become through her training with Old Chong.
What is a piano prodigy?
500
The world had never said this to Dee, until Mama did.
What is "no?"
500
When one event makes another happen; a series of related events.