Story Arc
The high point of a story.
What is the climax?
A quote from the book.
What is the evidence?
The punctuation used after a question.
What is a question mark?
The character in Prince Caspian who could quickly take down men by cutting their legs with a little sword.
Who is Reepicheep?
The speaker shows attentiveness by looking directly at the audience instead of his notes.
What is eye contact?
The events that unfold leading to the climax.
What is rising action?
An example of __________________.
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, by Semour Reit, is a very exciting fictional story.
What is the TAG?
The word that a pronoun refers to. For example:
Sarah forgot her book.
What is an antecedent? (Her refers to Sarah.)
Mrs. Frisby's sickly son.
Who was Timothy?
The quiet action of the audience during a speech.
What is listening?
The end of the story.
What is the conclusion?
The answer to the question, or writing prompt.
What is the claim?
A verb that is a state of being or in other words, the action is received and not done by the subject.
What is a passive verb?
The smallest boy in Holes, who is the fastest digger and Stanley's best friend.
Who is Zero?
The people who are judging the speakers during a debate.
What is the jury?
Events finally move towards a resolution.
What is falling action?
The paragraph where you'll find: SWBST?
What is the introduction?
A type of sentence with an independent clause and a dependent clause. For example:
Although he was tired, Joe finished the long hike.
What is a complex sentence?
Emma Edmond's disguise as a Confederate sympathizer who was a white shrewd businessman.
Who is Charles Mayberry?
The counter-argument or response to a speaker's debate speech.
What is a rebuttal?
We are introduced to the characters, the setting, and the problem of the story.
What is exposition?
A reason for your claim.
What is the premise?
Figuring out a word's meaning from its latin or greek prefix. For example:
superviser- over and above employees
superintendent - over and above a school district
superman- over and above ordinary men
What is morphology?
The item Jim sold in Gift of the Magi to buy his wife a tortoise shell comb for her hair.
What is a watch?
The man who gave the famous, "I Have a Dream" speech.
Who is Martin Luther King?