Narrative Elements
When I Was Puerto Rican
Plot Pyramid
Characterization
Writing Elements
100
A description of the time and place in which the story is happening.
What is setting?
100
Negi.
What is the protagonist?
100
Person vs. person, person vs. society, person vs. self, are all examples of what?
What is conflict?
100
The act of describing a character, including descriptions of thoughts, actions, looks and speech.
What is Characterization?
100
Every paragraph begins with one.
What is a topic sentence?
200
A conversation, usually between two or more characters, usually shown in quotation marks.
What is dialogue?
200
These are the two settings of the story.
What is Puerto Rico and New York?
200
The point at which the conflict is solved.
What is the climax?
200
When the author uses STEAL to give the reader information about a character.
What is indirect characterization?
200
This comes after a topic sentence or an argument and summarizes the most important parts of the book.
What is context?
300
What author's use to describe anything they can see, hear, smell, taste, or touch.
What is sensory imagery?
300
Ways to describe Mami and Negi's relationships.
What is hostile, tense, tough-love?
300
The event or decision that ends the exposition and begins the rising action.
What is the inciting incident?
300
A character who changes in some way from the beginning to the end of the story.
What is a dynamic character?
300
This must be used every single time evidence is given from the text.
What is quotation marks?
400
Words or phrases that describe how things look, feel, taste, smell and sound.
What is sensory imagery?
400
This is the major conflict of the story.
What is person v. self, or person v. society.
400
The most important problem that drives the plot forward.
What is the major conflict?
400
President Snow is this kind of character.
What is an antagonist (or static character)?
400
These are the parts that need to be included in each body paragraph.
What is topic sentence, context, evidence, explanation of evidence, and analysis.
500
The narrator's position in relation to the story being told.
What is point of view?
500
This is the major theme throughout the novel.
What is identity?
500
The two ways that theme is developed in a story.
What is character development and conflict development?
500
When a character learns something as a result of the conflict.
What is character development?
500
These are the two parts of a conclusion paragraph.
What is the argument and explanation of why it's important?
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