Narrative Elements
Signposts and The Outsiders
Author's Craft
Windows and Mirrors
Poetry
100

Adjectives used to describe someone'e personality.

What are character traits?

100

The signpost that describes a point in a story in which information from the past is shared with the reader.

What is a memory moment?

100

The difference between a simile and a metaphor.

Both are a comparison between two unlike things, but a simile uses "like" or "as" to do so, while a metaphor does not.

100

The difference between a window book and a mirror book.

Window books show us a perspective or experience different from our own.

Mirror books allow us to see ourselves reflected in them.

100

A set of lines grouped together in poetry.

What is a stanza?

200

The two necessary elements when describing the setting of a story.

What are time and place?

200

A reference to another book, movie, famous person, or other element of popular culture. For example, Taylor Swift's "Love Story" refers to Romeo and Juliet.

What is an allusion?

200

Three ways an author might manipulate time in their writing.

What are slowing down, speeding up, and flashbacks?

200

The term used to describe all of the things that make up who a person is.

What is identity?

200

The name for a pair of lines, one after the other, that rhymes.

What is a Rhyming Couplet?

300

The four types of conflict.

What are Character vs. Character, Self, Nature, and Society?

300

A type of statement that describes a lesson from the book, such as: "Regardless of material differences, all people go through hardships and should be treated with kindness."

What is a theme statement?

300

The type of figurative language that describes the phrase: "...a taste of your own medicine."

What is an idiom?

300

A physical or symbolic "thing" that a person can possess which makes them powerful.

What is a source of power?

300

When describing the rhyme scheme of a poem, the letter given to a line that rhymes with the first line of the poem.

What is "A"?

400

The moment near the beginning of the story that sets the conflict in motion.

What is the inciting incident?

400

A daily, natural occurrence discussed by Ponyboy and Cherry that symbolizes the similarities between their social groups.

What are sunsets?

400

Another term for sarcasm.

What is verbal irony?

400

A situation that is unfair to a person or group of people due to specific laws or rules (coming from a governing body) that make it unfair.

What is de jure injustice?

400

The proper term for a stanza consisting of exactly 4 lines.

What is a quatrain?

500

The point of view in which the narrator is able to describe the thoughts and feelings of any character.

What is 3rd Person Omniscient?

500

An idea, topic, image, event, etc. that recurs throughout a story.

What is a motif?

500

The type of irony that describes a situation in which the reader (or audience) knows something the characters do not yet know.

What is dramatic irony?

500

The three elements of power described in this class.

What are:

Power Systems

Sources of Power

Power Dynamics?

500

The alliterative, 3-word phrase referring to the idea that the shape or structure of a poem supports or helps create the poem's meaning.

What is "Form Follows Function"?