Vocabulary
The time and place in which a story occurs.
What is Setting?
This archetype acts to redeem society by overcoming great odds in service to successfully completing extraordinary acts of strength, courage and goodness.
Who is a hero?
This hero helped save the homes of his family and friends using a pirate's map.
Who is Mikey?
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
Something needed behind the words pizza and cheeseburger in the following sentence: My favorite foods are pizza cheeseburgers and spaghetti.
What is a comma?
The overall emotional quality of a work, which is created by the author's language and tone and the subject matter.
What is mood?
This archetype is usually a girl/woman who needs to be rescued by the hero.
Who is a maiden or damsel in distress?
This hero's call to adventure involved a war that began by the Huns attacking China. The emperor then declared that every family in China needed to send one man to the fight.
The literal or primary meaning of a word.
What is denotation?
Something needed at the end of the following sentence: Who is Joseph Campbell
What is a question mark?
A character, symbol, story pattern, or other element that is common to human experience across culture and that occurs frequently in literature, myth, and folklore
What is archetype?
This archetype helps to prepare the journey by giving important advice or teaching him/her an important skill.
Who is the mentor?
This hero went to the land of Cyclops to see if they were cruel, savage, and lawless or hospitable and feared the gods.
Who is Odysseus?
The ability to form mental images of things or events that appeal to the 5 senses.
What is imagery?
Something needed at the end of the following sentence: The house is on fire
What is an exclamation mark?
The sequence of related events that make up a story.
This archetype adds fun and humor to the story. When times are gloomy or emotionally tense, this character gives the audience a welcome break.
Who is the trickster?
This hero's ordinary life is in a playroom of toys where he is the favorite toy until a new toy arrives as a birthday gift.
Who is Woody from Toy Story?
The idea or feeling that a word or words invoke by adding to the literal meaning of the actual word itself. For example the words in this sentence invoke a positive feeling: "The delicate, little bug scuttled quietly across the floor."
What is connotation?
Something needed after the s in the following sentence: The characters journey was dangerous.
What is an apostrophe?
A long narrative poem about the deeds of heroes or gods.
This archetype is usually a friendly figure who fights by the Hero's side.
This hero's call to adventure occurs when owls start delivering letters to the Dursley house, inviting him to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Who is Harry Potter?
A writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject.
What is tone?
Punctuation marks needed in this sentence:
A spider bite begins Peter Parker's heros journey
What is an apostrophe and a period?