Exposition (Setting & Main Characters)
The story takes place in this fictional town.
What is Castle Rock?
This seven-letter acronym is designed to help you remember to sue coordinating conjunctions.
What is FANBOYS?
Vern earns this nickname as a result of an ill-fated treasure hunt.
What is 'Penny'?
This is the acronym we looked at for analyzing how an author indirectly builds a character.
What is STEAL?
This song is form the soundtrack of the The Body's film adaptation.
What is Stand By Me?
The four boys are this age.
What is twelve?
This word is incorrectly capitalized in the following sentence: 'Mr. MacLeod is retiring this Summer so he can move to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and replace 'El Mencho' as head of the CJNG cartel.'
What is 'summer'?
The novella begins with a sentence that will be repeated throughout the story; it is an example of this literary technique meant to connect to a theme.
What is motif?
Like The Body, this film is coming-of-age-story that follows the trials of a young Black protagonist named Chiron growing up in the impoverished part of Miami.
What is Moonlight?
This song could connect to Gordie's mother and father as they deal with the grief of losing their first child.
What is 'Hurt'?
This is the four-letter acronym that describes the psychological condition Teddy's dad suffers from.
What is PTSD?
The following sentence is an example of this grammatical faux pas: 'We have a quiz on The Body this Friday, I am going to study on Thursday night.'
What is a comma splice?
King uses allusion to explain how Gordie feels around his parents; this is the name of the novel he references.
What is the Invisible Man?
We composed poems titled 'Where I'm From' that followed this three word mantra that is meant to make your writing more engaging.
What is 'show, don't tell'?
This song could connect to Teddy's father and his psychological trauma caused by WWII.
What is 'Crazy Train'?
Of the four boys, he is the one who is an avid reader.
Who is Gordie?
This word is incorrectly capitalized in the following sentence: 'The women's hockey team from the USA declined an invitation to meet with President Donald Trump after His misogynistic remarks about them.'
What is 'his'?
Chris brings this along for the adventure, but it almost ruins things before they start after Gordie gets a hold of it.
What is a gun?
Gordie’s dad trying (in vain) to revive his dead garden might symbolize his inability to deal with the loss of this character.
Who is Dennis/Gordie's older brother?
This song represents the journey the boys are about to undertake.
What is 'Life is a Highway'?
This character's father is an abusive alcoholic.
Who is Chris?
Instead of a coordinating conjunction, you can use this punctuation mark to join two independent clauses.
What is a semicolon?
King includes a (pretty terrible) short story by a university-age Gordie called this.
What is 'Stud City'?
In Different Seasons, The Body is connected to the theme 'Fall from Innocence'; King might have started the novel in this physical setting to show how the boys must venture out of their safe space to mature.
What is a clubhouse/treehouse?
The song can represent how Gordie feels around his father.
What is 'Creep'?