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Elements of PLOT
Laurence Yep
Elements of FICTION
"The Homecoming"
Mystery
100
The sequence of events in a story is based on characters and a conflict.
What is plot?
100
1948
What year was Laurence Yep born?
100
It has characters, setting and plot.
What are novels?
100
A person who is unusually interested in other people's business.
What is a busybody?
100
What is a factual account of a person's life told by that person?
What is an autobiography?
200
The turning point in the story?
What is the climax?
200
Dragonwings
What book of Laurence Yep won the Newbery Honor Award?
200
The message about life,never clearly stated in a story.
What is theme?
200
It takes place in a village and in a forest.
What is the setting of "The Homecoming?"
200
He turned into a seal.
What happened to Greyling when he returned to the sea?
300
Events in the plot increase the suspense and curiousity.
What is the rising action of the plot?
300
Fiction
What genre does Laurence Yep mostly write?
300
The way in which the narrator presents the story.
What is point of view?
300
This word means strongly attracted to something interesting or delightful.
What is fascinated?
300
He stopped to watch the saints play chess.
Why did the woodcutter spend several thousand years in the forest?
400
The types of text where elements of plot are present (List at least 4).
What are short stories, fiction novels, dramas, plays, and narrative poems?
400
Chinese American
What nationality is Laurence Yep?
400
Take place in a time or location.
What is setting?
400
Being kind and generous and giving help to others. What word am I?
What is charitable?
400
The woodcutter tried to help the boy fix the kite.
What was the frist thing the woodcutter tried to fix in "The Homecoming?"
500
The school teacher tells the woodcutter about the story of what happened thousands of years ago. This is a critical part of this element in the plot.
What is the resolution?
500
San Fransisco, California
Where was Laurence Yep born?
500
CHaracters, setting, plot, theme and point of view.
What are the five key elements of fiction?
500
Mind your own business.
What is the theme of "The Homecoming?"
500
There was a different family.
What happened when the woodcutter walked back into his house?