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Plot
Setting
Vocabulary
All Summer in a Day1
All Summer in a Day2
100
The series of related events that make up the story. It usually has four parts.
What is plot?
100
The place and time where a story takes place.
What is setting?
100
Squiggy's leg was apparently _______. I wish I would have known that before he broke it.
What is frail?
100
The main character.
Who is Margot?
100
The amount of time since the sun has come out.
What is seven years?
200
A struggle that keeps the story interesting. It can be either internal or external.
What is conflict?
200
The setting of All Summer in a Day.
What is Venus?
200
I can relate to the children in the story and how they _______ the chance to play in the sun.
What is savored?
200
The place the children shoved the main character just before the sun came out.
What is the closet?
200
The length of time that the sun was out.
What is one hour?
300
The way a story ends, but it doesn't have to be happily ever after.
What is resolution?
300
The thing setting creates so that the reader is able to imagine how people live and act in the story.
What is reality?
300
Although I know it isn't true, I sometimes think that ice cream is _________.
What is vital?
300
The place that most children were born.
What is Venus?
300
The way the children seem to feel about what they've done to the main character?
What is proud or happy?
400
The turning point in a story, often the most exciting part.
What is the climax?
400
The overall mood that can be created by the setting.
What is atmosphere?
400
They saw the tsunami coming and ran away as the water _______ toward them.
What is surged?
400
The moment the children remember about Margot
What is when the teacher says that it will be seven more years before the sun shines?
400
The feeling that the other children have toward Margot at the beginning of the story.
What is jealousy or resentment?
500
The events and people in a story that make it so that the problem in the story can't be resolved easily.
What are complications?
500
When the setting causes problems for characters in the story.
What is external conflict?
500
It is of the greatest _______ that you do all of your homework.
What is consequence?
500
The specific genre of All Summer in a Day.
What is science fiction?
500
"They stood as if someone had driven them, like so many stakes, into the floor." This phrase is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a simile?