The universal message that an author writes about in a story.
What is theme?
100
The emotional associations that a word or phrase has.
What is connotation?
100
The word that is used to describe when and where a story takes place.
What is setting?
100
The main source of tension and drama in a story.
What is conflict?
100
Immature or Youthful
What is immature?
200
The dictionary definition, or literal meaning.
What is denotation?
200
The ability to connect what is in the text with what is in the mind to create an educated guess.
What is inference?
200
The pattern and sequence of events in a story.
What is plot?
200
An objective retelling of a story in different and fewer words.
What is summary?
200
Obese or Curvy
What is obese?
300
An example of a TYPE of conflict in a story?
What is Human vs. Human, Human vs. Society, Human vs. Self? Or Human vs. Nature, Human vs. Supernatural, Human vs. Technology, Human vs. Destiny, etc.
300
The 3 skills you use to determine the theme of a story
What is inference, analysis, and interpretation?
300
What you can look at in a story to analyze a character?
What is how a character looks and whether or not a character changes; the background, history, and personality of a character; the motivations, relationships, and the conflicts that a character has?
Everything!
300
An accurate denotation of the word "dog"?
What is a four-legged, domesticated descendant of wolves?
300
Unique or Weird?
What is Weird?
400
The 3 roles of setting in a story.
What is "establishes the mood", "shapes the action", and "influences the characters"?
400
The FULL names of the parents in THE VELDT.
George Hadley and Lydia Hadley
400
True or False: the subject of the story is the same as the theme?
False
400
An accurate denotation of the word "snake".
What is a limbless, scaled reptile?
400
Thin or Scrawny
What is Scrawny?
500
The most effective way to determine the theme of a story?
What is "read closely and analyze elements of the story (plot, setting, character development) to
interpret the author's overall deeper meaning" ?
500
The author of THE VELDT.
Who is Ray Bradbury?
500
The author of THE LOTTERY.
Who is Shirley Jackson?
500
The name of the character sacrificed at the end of THE LOTTERY.