Story Elements
Plot Diagram
Characters
Plot
Comprehension
100
Briefly describe the plot of the necklace.
1. Loisel is a poor woman in France who longs to be upper class. 2. She is invited to an upperclass party but has nothing to wear. 3. She borrows an expensive necklace from a friend. 4. At the party, Loisel loses the necklace. 5. In order to pay her friend back, Loisel and her husband buy a new necklace, and spend a decade paying off the debt. 6. Loisel becomes a hard-working, frugal woman. 7. Loisel sees the friend she borrowed the necklace from years later and finds out that it was a fake necklance all along.
100
Provides important background information and introduces characters and setting.
What is exposition?
100
What is the main character's name in "The Necklace?"
Madame Loisel
100
What is the expostion of "The Necklace?"
Madame Loisel live in France in a time where status is very important. She desperately wants to be upper class when she is lower to lower-middle class.
100
To indicate beforehand.
What is foreshadow?
200
What is the setting of "The Necklace?"
A town in France in the past.
200
The conflict in the story is introduced and developed, leading to the climax
What is rising action?
200
What is Madame Loisel's first name?
Mathilde
200
What is the rising action of "The Necklace?"
When Loisel borrows the necklace. It builds suspension and intensity with the reader and builds toward the climax.
200
This had a subject, predicate, and can stand alone by itself as a complete sentence.
What is an independent clause?
300
What is the conflict in "The Necklace?"
Madame Loisel and her husband lose a valuable necklace and must maintain their dignity.
300
How a the conflict of the plot is put to rest at the end of the story.
What is Resolution?
300
How did the conflict change Loisel?
It changed her into a hard worker, and she lost her vanity.
300
What is the climax of "The Necklace"?"
When Loisel loses the necklace.
300
This has a subject, predicate, and can not stand alone by itself as a complete sentence.
What is a dependent clause.
400
What is the theme of "The Necklace?"
A desire to be someone else can ruin you. The love of money can destroy someone.
400
The point of highest intensity or the turning point of the plot.
What is climax
400
Why was Loisel upset when her husband told her about the party? What does this say about her character?
She didn't have appropriate clothing to wear, and she is very vain.
400
What is the falling action of "The Necklace?"
Loisel develops into an extremely hard worker in order to pay off the debt the lost necklace put her in. This is the direct result of the climax, and how the plot begins to unwind.
400
This will have a subject or a predicate, and it will not be a complete sentence.
What is a phrase.
500
Explain Madame Loisel's character's motivation for replacing the Necklace instead of telling her friend.
She has a need to maintain her dignity amongst the higher class; she didn't want to seem careless.
500
The results of the climax and the unwinding of the plot.
What is falling action?
500
When Loisel and her husband were leaving the party, what action characterized her hatred of everyday modest living?
When her husband tried to put the common cloths around her shoulders to keep her warm, yet she denied them in order to preserve her appearances in front of the wealthy.
500
What is the Resolution of the Necklace?
Loisel pays her debts and discovers that the borrowed necklace was fake all along.
500
What is the moment called the introduces the conflict?
What is the inciting incident?
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