Vocabulary
Plot Moments
Characterization
Characters
Lit Terms
100
This vocabulary term means burning.
What is "searing?"
100
This is the emotional high point of the story.
What is the climax of the story?
100
"Betsy Johnson, the vivacious blonde secretary of the sorority, is an example of this (2).
What is flat character OR direct characterization?
100
This is Millicent's "Big Sister."
Who is Beverly?
100
This is a generalized statement about life that connects to the story.
What is theme?
200
This vocabulary term means cruel or mean.
What is malicious?
200
An example of this plot term is seen when Millicent still wants to be friends with everyone but is concerned about telling the other girls that she changed her mind.
What is the falling action?
200
This is the difference between a round and flat character.
What is round characters recieve more details and descriptions while flat characters are minimally described?
200
This is the person that does not want anything to change.
Who is Tracy?
200
This is the genre that short stories are written in, it means "fake," and it includes imaginary moments and characters.
What is fiction?
300
This vocabulary term means open, rolling areas of land.
What is the term "moors?"
300
This is the final outcome of the story.
What is the resolution of the story?
300
This is how we know a character is dynamic.
What is a change occurs (that shifts a character's actions, viewpoint, or personality?)
300
This character realizes that independence is more valuable than being popular.
Who is Millicent?
300
This character goes against other characters or other characters' ideas and creates conflict.
What is an antagonist (Bev in our story)?
400
This vocabulary term means lively and spirited.
What is the term"vivacious?"
400
This plot term is seen when Bev is calling Millicent a "gopher" and is making Millicent clean Bev's room.
What is the rising action?
400
"Millicent sat down at her desk in the big study hall. Tomorrow she would come to school, proudly, laughingly" is an example of this (3).
What is indirect characterization?
400
This person "approached Millicent as she was getting an ice cream at the lunch counter that noon" and Millicent could not talk (10).
Who is Herb?
400
The feeling that specific words create, (can be positive or negative).
What is connotation?
500
This vocabulary term means flirtatious.
What is the term "coquettish?"
500
An example of this plot term is when Millicent is being initiated in the basement.
What is the exposition?
500
The difference between direct and indirect characterization.
What is... direct characterization is when the narrator or a character tells the audience exact details about a character and indirect characterization is when a reader needs to infer details and personality traits about a character based on the information given?
500
This is the principle of Lansing High.
Who is Mr. Cranton?
500
These are the four timing literary terms we learned and their definitions.
What is a flashback- a writer interupts flow of time by jumping to the past, a flashforward-characters jump ahead into the future by days, weeks, years, etc. suspense- the intense feeling an audience goes through while waiting for certain events to occur, foreshadowing- writers bring the future into the present through hints and clues at what is to come?
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