Literary Terms
Where the story takes place, including time, location, and environment.
What is setting?
A struggle between two opposing forces.
What is conflict?
The word Jenn Woodruff misspelled on the giant scroll in class last week.
What is character?
The title only of the very first story we read in Critical Reading and Writing.
What is Everyday Use
Where the story takes place, including time, location, and environment.
What is setting?
Sets a character against outside forces standing in the way of their goal.
What is external conflict?
The two types of conflict that cover every literary work
Arguably the most popular candy snack we have in class.
What are Sour Patch Kids?
A book Jenn Woodruff is excited about but won’t make you read unless the class votes to read it.
What is Radium Girls?
What is conflict?
The definition of internal conflict
What is the struggle within the character driving their development?
All stories of internal conflict are of this subtype.
What is Character vs Self?
This made a jelly jar a "nice" drinking glass, rather than a regular one.
What is increased width?
This planet served as the setting for the 1954 Science Fiction story, All Summer in a Day.
What is Venus?
Some examples include friendship, love, coming of age, oppression, and social mobility.
What are themes in literature?
Some include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and prose, but there's also science fiction, creative non-fiction, memoir, and haiku.
What are genres?
A two-part question we can ask ourselves to help determine the type of conflict in a piece.
What does the character want and what is standing in their way?
The term Jenn Woodruff's family coined for knit hats in the late 1970s, and still uses today.
What is fussy hats?
Margot
Who was the main character in All Summer in a Day?
Alice Walker
Who is the author of Everyday Use?
A conclusion you reach based on information from the text, as well as what you already know.
What is inference?
The main type of conflict in All Summer in a Day. (And defend your choice)
What is Character vs Society (with explanation)?
The name of Jenn Woodruff's cat and one special feature about him.
What is Burrito and he has only two teeth?
Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan
Where did Coyote get the name for her kitten, Ivan?
An essay style consisting of an introduction / thesis paragraph, three supporting body paragraphs, and a conclusion paragraph.
What is a 5 paragraph essay?