Can you map it?
Grab Bag
Are you a poet?
You might need to know.
You might need to know.
100
The turning point of the story
What is the climax?
100
Some say coke, some say soda, others say pop.
What is a colloquialism?
100
It has 14 lines.
What is a sonnet?
100
To inform, to entertain or to persuade.
What is author's purpose?
100
It is an exageration.
What is an hyperbole?
200
It is presented in the exposition.
What is the setting? Who are the characters? What are some clues about the problem?
200
A play on words, kind of like a joke.
What is a pun?
200
The pattern is five syllables, seven syllables and then five syllables.
What is a haiku?
200
Someone is telling the story fro the "I" role.
What is first person point of view?
200
When you get the unexpected or people say one thing and mean another (sort of like sarcasm).
What is irony?
300
The story becomes more exciting and the characters move toward the climax.
What is rising action?
300
Everything in a sentence or list has equal importance.
What is parallelism?
300
Using the last word of every line of a poem to find a pattern. ABAB, CDCD or AABB CCDD.
What is rhyme scheme?
300
Stories told from a "we" voice.
What is second person point of view?
300
The author reveals details about the characters such as, "He had blonde hair and was tall."
What is direct characterization?
400
The problems are solved.
What is the resolution?
400
You might find this in a fortune cookie. It is a moral or a lesson to live by.
What is an aphorism?
400
A direct comparison between two things.
What is a metaphor?
400
Stories told with a narrator.
What is third person point of view?
400
The main character who is keeping the action going?
What is the protagonist?
500
The action slows down and loose ends are tied up.
What is falling action?
500
The upgraded personification.
What is pathetic fallacy?
500
Each line of a poem has 10 syllables.
What is iambic pantameter?
500
Stories told with a narrator that knows what everyone is thinking and feeling.
What is third person omniscient point of view?
500
The plot of a novel is based on a character trying to survive on a deserted desert island.
What is charcter versus nature?
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