Short Stories
The setting of a story is made up of three parts: the location where the story takes place (where), the specific circumstances going on in this location (what), and this third part.
This is the term for inserting earlier scenes or events into the normal order of a story to provide extra background information.
What is a flashback?
Because the bus was delayed.
What is a sentence fragment?
This is the term for the bibliography in an MLA-formatted essay that lists all of the research sources referenced in the work.
What is a works cited page?
According to Canadian law, 'EXIT' signs indicating the exit door of a building can only be one of these two colours.
What are green or red?
This is the term for topics that come up over and over again, such as the ideas of family relationships and independence in the short story "Saturday Climbing".
What are motifs?
"I don't need to bring my charger. My phone battery lasts forever."
What is hyperbole?
Taylor walks into the classroom, sat down, and opened her notebook.
What is tense inconsistency?
Despite providing all the elements of life Pi would need to survive, this is the reason he ultimately decides to leave Algae Island.
What is the fact that the island is carnivorous and becomes dangerous at nighttime (human teeth in the fruit, burning ground, poisonous water, etc.)
The first McDonalds in Canada opened in 1967 in this province.
What is British Columbia?
This is the term for a character who changes significantly over the course of a story, like Tony Stark who undergoes major character development throughout The Avengers movies.
What is a dynamic character?
A YouTube influencer who went viral for helpful cybersecurity advice gets hacked because of a weak password.
What is situational irony?
The dog barked loudly and raced across the yard, before jumping over the short fence.
This piece of punctuation can be used to replace the word 'and' when two separate sentences are related to the same topic (ie We are going to the beach AND you can come if you don't have to work).
A semicolon (We are going to the beach; you can come if you don't have to work)
In 1996, two Stanford University students created a website known as 'Backrub'. This is the name the site goes by today.
What is Google?
This is the term for the method of narration that refers to the reader as "you", thereby involving them in the action with descriptions such as, "You walk hesitantly up the stairs, unsure of what you're about to see."
What is second person narration?
In the movie The Matrix, Neo decides to take the red pill because swallowing it will signify his decision to awaken to the truth and be aware of his reality.
What is symbolism?
The weather was terrible, we stayed inside all weekend, we watched movies.
What is a comma splice?
A critic of this particular literary theory would likely ask the question, "How do my own personal life experiences impact the way I feel about the characters in this scene?"
What is the reader response theory?
The national animal of Canada is the beaver. The national animal of Scotland is this mythical creature.
What is a unicorn?
This is the story element that is used in a short story about a population of people who continue to get hurt in tragic accidents because they can't look up from their phones, in order to emphasize the author's own concerns about society's addiction to technology.
What is the tone?
The Canadian soccer team wins the World Cup championship after a difficult season, and the scene ends with a pink and orange sky featuring a colorful sunset.
What is pathetic fallacy?
As a team, craft a sentence that contains an example of a RUN-ON SENTENCE.
Answers will vary.
A critic of this literary theory would likely ask the question, "If this story was used as a representation of humanity, what conclusions could be drawn about human nature?"
What is the philosophical lens or theory?
According to a poll conducted by the online grocery shopping app Instacart, this is the most disliked food in the U.S.A.
What are anchovies?