WHAT'S IN A PLOT?
FIGURE IT OUT!
"WHO'S TALKING?"
I DON'T WANT TO FIGHT
WHAT'S YOUR POINT?
100

This occurs when the CONFLICT is resolved and allows for the FALLING ACTION to occur...

What is the CLIMAX?

100

And when their voices faded away it was as quiet as a dream.

What is a SIMILE?

100

“It doesn't matter what it looked like. What matters is the truth."

Who is Mr. Peabody?

100

Name the type of CONFLICT:

The boy and his fathers go in search of an owl in the winter time...

What is PERSON vs. NATURE?

100

Who’s telling your story, and how is it being written for the reader

What is POINT OF VIEW?

200

How the story ends...after the FALLING ACTION

What is the RESOLUTION?

200

But I was a shadow as we walked home.

What is a METAPHOR?

200

"This is Thunder Cake baking weather..."

Who is Grandma?

200

Name the type of CONFLICT:

Sylvester turns himself into a rock...

What is PERSON vs. SUPERNATURAL

200

Persuade, inform, entertain...

What is the AUTHOR'S PURPOSE?

300

This part of the plot gives details such as setting, characters, and leads to the main CONFLICT before RISING ACTION BEGINS...

What is the EXPOSITION?

300

“Whoo-whoo-who-who-who-who-whoooooo. Whoo-whoo-who-who-who-who-whoooooo.”

What is ONOMATOPOEIA?

300

“His thoughts began to race like mad. He was scared and worried. Being helpless, he felt hopeless. He imagined all the possibilities, and eventually he realized that his only chance of becoming himself again was for someone to find the red pebble and to wish that the rock next to it would be a donkey.”

Who is SYLVESTER?

300

Name the type of CONFLICT:

Mr. Peabody is accused of being a thief...

What is PERSON vs. PERSON?

300
Uses pronouns like: YOU and YOUR

What is 2nd PERSON POV?

400

Sets up and explains the where, when, and social context of the story....often found in the EXPOSITION.

What is the SETTING?

400

They sang out, trains and dogs, for a real long time.

What is PERSONIFICATION?

400

What is missing?

What a lucky day this is! thought Sylvester.

What are QUOTATION MARKS - in front of WHAT and after the exclamation mark?

400

When a character has to make a difficult decision.

What is INTERNAL CONFLICT?

400

Uses pronouns like: HE, SHE, THEY, THEM

What is 3rd PERSON POV?

500

Events that move the story along to the CLIMAX...

What is RISING ACTION?

500

For one minute, three minutes, maybe even a hundred minutes, we stared at one another.

What is HYPERBOLE?

500

What is needed to fix this dialogue:

"Time to go home" Pa said to me    

What is a COMMA after HOME and a PERIOD after Me?

500

When a character is being affect by outside forces.

What is EXTERNAL CONFLICT?

500

Narrated stories often use this POINT OF VIEW...

What is 1st PERSON POV?

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