Literary Elements
"The Buffalo Dance" is from this genre.
What is a short story?
Chanuka is an Ojibway warrior. We learn his tribe is enemies with the Dakota tribe.
What is the exposition?
The narrator uses "I, me, my, and we"
What is first-person point of view?
FANBOYS
What is the acronym for coordinating conjunctions?
The plot and moral of "The Buffalo Dance" is similar to this story in the Bible.
What is "The Good Samaritan?"
The Ojibway and Dakota tribes have hated each other for many years.
What is the external conflict?
Chanuka begins caring for Neosho. They become friends. Then, the chief asks Chanuka to spy out the Dakota land.
What is the rising action?
You are walking down the street. You smell freshly brewed coffee and think, "That smells delicious!"
What is second-person point of view?
For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
What are the coordinating conjunctions?
The important lesson to learn from "The Buffalo Dance" is this.
What is loving everyone?
Chanuka isn't sure that he actually wants to complete his mission.
What is the internal conflict?
Neosho sees Chanuka's moccasins and switches them for his. Then, he helps Chanuka escape.
Chanuka takes the moccasins as proof of the mission. Neosho keeps Chanuka's moccasins. The boys remain friends.
What are the falling action and resolution?
The narrator tells us Chanuka's thoughts and feelings, but no one else's.
What is third-person limited point of view?
Not only...but also
Both...and
Neither...nor
Either...or
What are the correlative conjunctions?
Chanuka is a warrior.
The underlined word serves this purpose in the sentence.
What is a subject?
The Ojibway and Dakota tribes have different lifestyles and are enemies. This information about what's normal for them adds extra layers to the story and helps move the plot along.
What is cultural context?
Chanuka finds Neosho wounded. He realizes Neosho is a boy from the Dakota tribe. He has to decide to help him or capture him.
What is the inciting incident?
In "Amigo Brothers," the narrator uses "he" and "they" to talk about Antonio and Felix. The narrator also gives us the thoughts and feelings of both characters.
That means it is this type of point-of-view.
What is third-person omniscient?
Balanced or unbalanced?
I would neither like to clean nor cook.
What is unbalanced?
Chanuka is a warrior.
The underlined word is this sentence part.
What is a simple predicate?
Chanuka saves Neosho because he realizes that he is a boy just like him.
What is character motivation?
The Dakota tribe searches the camp. Chanuka is in danger, so Neosho gives him his part in the Buffalo Dance.
What is the climax?
Jerry and Sally went for a walk.
"I wonder what he's thinking," Sally pondered.
"I really could use some frozen custard right about now..." thought Jerry as he dreamed of the different flavors from Culver's.
The "story" is written in this point of view.
What is third-person omniscient?
This coordinating conjunction is used to show contrast.
What is "yet?"
All of the words that go with the "action taker" in a sentence.
All of the words that describe the "action taker" in a sentence.
What is a complete subject?
What is a complete predicate?