It's All About the Plot
When a story begins at the beginning and moves in the actual order that things happen, this sequence is called...
chronological order
In Night this was the name of the main character.
Elie
The types of themes that apply to people everywhere, regardless of time or place, are called... examples: love, loss, betrayal
universal (Archetypal themes)
Shep blows the money on...
crack.
Nouns are defined as these 4 things:
person, place, thing, or idea
This is the last part of the plot, sometimes called the "denouement."
Resolution
In The Glory Field, this is the first character
Muhammad
This occurs when the reader knows something way before the characters do.
dramatic irony
Mrs. Schrater yells
Fire, Fire!
An adjective can only describe these two parts of speech.
nouns and pronouns
Writers use this technique to give hints at something that will happen later.
foreshadowing
In Night, this is the character that teaches the main character as a child.
Moshe the Beadle
Give an example of situational irony.
a car crash in front of a drive careful sign.
How many rooms did death move through in Masque of the Red Death?
7
How many nouns are in this sentence? The fruit fly flitted around the room and landed on the orange-scented candle.
three (fly, room, candle)
This literary device interrupts the present action to show events that happened at an earlier time.
flashback
In The Glory Field, this character uses Ethos and Pathos to convince Tommy to skip his senior year of high school.
Mr. Chase.
Give an example of dramatic irony.
Audience knows the killer is in the house but the character does not.
What was the last living thing in "There Will Come Soft Rains"
The dog
How many adjectives are in this sentence? The soft, warm breeze blew gently across the fragrant meadow.
three (soft, warm, fragrant)
The setting is generally revealed at this point in a story.
exposition (introduction)
In The Glory Field, this character gives the chains to Malcolm after his death.
Planter (Richard).
This word means being open to two or more interpretations. (Hint: The word begins with "A")
ambiguity
Give an example of internal AND external conflicts from The Glory Field
internal -Tommy debating to take place in the demonstration
external - Frank Petty coming after Elijah
Identify all of the adjectives in this sentence. In the middle of a quiet afternoon, I heard a loud, screaming siren that hurt my tender ears and gave me a tremendous, raging headache.
six (quiet, loud, screaming, tender, tremendous, raging)