Plot Stucture
This color is used for concrete details, or evidence.
What is red?
This is the main, arguable point.
What is a claim?
She went on a ski, trip, last year.
What is false?
This literary device compares two unlike things using "like" or "as" in order to highlight a characteristic.
What is simile?
The major turning point, peak of action, or point-of-no-return in the story.
What is the climax?
This refers to the "meat" of a paragraph, or the sentences in the middle.
What is a chunk?
This is one way to influence an audience: through emotions.
What is pathos?
When I fell down the stairs, I broke my wrist in three places.
What is true?
This restaurant in Yakima, located on 16th and Lincoln, has amazing ice cream and Mrs. Irwin's favorite local burger!
What is Ron's?
The beginning of a story where all the need-to-know details are discussed.
What is the exposition?
When writing one of these, you will want to make sure you have covered the main idea for the paragraph.
What is the topic sentence?
The other side has to argue back. This is what it is called.
What is the counterclaim?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! Dwight K. Schrute, a beet farmer, became the manager at Dunder Mifflin Scranton.
What is true?
In this young adult fantasy series, a young man discovers not only that he is a wizard, but also that he is the key to saving the wizarding world.
What is the Harry Potter series?
During this point of the story, conflicts occur to build tension and move plot forward.
What is rising action?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! This number refers to how many CD and CM sentences are necessary.
What is the ratio?
Using logic to persuade people can be effective-- we like those numbers and statistics.
What is logos?
Your mother, Georgiana is a lovely woman.
What is false?
This SBA claim is all about a student's reading skills-- for both literary and informational text.
What is claim 1?
After the climax, minor conflicts are also resolved during this part of a story.
What is falling action?
This bit is your own analysis, your own words, and your own interpretations of the text. These stay out of CD sentences and belong in their own lines.
What is commentary?
This is the foundation of argument, the winner, and it must be reliable.
What is concrete detail/evidence?
We really are starving, by the way.
What is true?
Mrs. Irwin's youngest dog is named after this Marvel hero.
Who is Miles Morales?