Plot
Narration
Character Type
Characterization
Potpourri
100
This is the focus of our first reading.
What is the sequence of events called plot?
100
This is how many types of narration exist.
What is five?
100
This is what character type identifies.
What is how the author is using the character?
100
These are the types of characterization.
What is direct and indirect?
200
This drives the plot.
What is conflict?
200
This type of narration is characterized by a more emotional tone.
What is first person in the now?
200
These are the three traits of a protagonist.
What is attempts to solve a problem and is round and dynamic?
200
Direct Characterization.
What is when the narrator tells the reader?
200
This is why you should not use the second part of plot when you begin your analysis.
What is because the protagonist is making many superfical attempts to solve the problem thereby complicating the situation.
300
This is the key defining point of conflict.
What is the protagonist's irrevocable action?
300
We assume this when we read a third person narration.
What is that it is omniscient?
300
This character acts as a mirror for a major character; s/he shares many traits or issues but has at least one distinctive difference.
What is a foil?
300
These are the five ways an author shows the character to the reader.
What are appearance, speech, actions of the character, reactions of other characters to the character and thoughts?
400
This part of plot is for the reader.
What is the denouement?
400
This term is often, yet erroneously, used in place of the term narration.
What is point of view
400
An antagonist.
What is the force working against the protagonist?
500
This is the best way to assess (analyze) a story for its conflict and therefore its theme.
What is to compare and contrast the exposition with the denouement?
500
Poe ironically used this narration choice for "Cask of Amontillado."
What is first person distanced?
500
These characters are always static and often flat.
What is a stock character or stereotype?
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