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Elements of Plot 1
Elements of Plot 2
Figurative Language 1
Figurative Language 2
Mystery
100
The reader is introduced to the main character(s), main conflict, and the setting.
What is the exposition?
100
A fight or a problem between one character and something else.
What is external conflict?
100
A comparison of two unlike things that uses the terms “like” or “as”.
What is a simile?
100
Example: The jeweler was a vulture as he inspected the diamond.
What is a metaphor?
100
A conclusion based on reasoning rather than an straightforward statement.
What is an inference?
200
The turning point of the story where the character comes face to face with the main the conflict
What is the climax?
200
A fight or problem within a person’s mind
What is internal (inner) conflict?
200
Comparing two unlike things as if one was the other.
What is a metaphor?
200
Find the comparison: The hurricane was an angry bull bullying its way through the coast. It crashed into the nearby resorts. It flooded the houses, and it brought a cloud of darkness that covered the coast. It was the scariest time of my life.
What is a hurricane and an angry bull?
200
The author’s attitude towards his or her subject.
What is tone?
300
Events that advance (or propel) the story forward.
What is plot?
300
The author leaves clues to tell the reader what may happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
300
A figure of speech that has a meeting only in a particular language or culture.
What is an idiom?
300
Find the comparison: Tom's new yacht is as huge as a blue whale. Its beams are sturdy, and its bow is wide. The mast is like a tall tree.
What is a new yacht and a blue whale?
300
How a writer reveals the personality of a character. Can include what the character says bout himself, what other reveals about the character, or by the characters own actions.
What is characterization?
400
Example: “He dived. The dragon’s head followed him; he knew what it was going do and pulled out of the dive just in time; a jet of fire had been released exactly here he would have been had he not swerved away.”
What is external conflict?
400
Example: Johnny struggled with the question on the test for more than five minutes. If he didn't pass this test, he would fail the class and possible have to repeat the grade. Each question mattered but he just didn't know the answer.
What is inner conflict?
400
A figure of speech in which inanimate objects are given human like qualities.
What is personification?
400
What is the figurative meaning of the simile: Many Hollywood movies are shallow. The local critic said that the latest summer blockbuster was as flat as a surfboard.
What is the movie lacked depth?
400
"Juan began mowing lawns for money last summer. He started mowing at the beginning of May. It was spring, it rained often and continued through the summer, and the lawns on Juan's block grew fast. He was able to mow lawns all summer, and he made some good money! This year was completely different. The weather did not cooperate. Most of Juan's customers told him that he did not need to mow as often. By the end of the summer, Juan made less than half of what he made the year before." Which of these statements is supported by the paragraph? A) There was less wind this summer than last summer. B) This was a much hotter summer than last summer. C) This was a much colder summer than last summer. D) There was less rain this summer than last summer.
What is D) There was less rain this summer than last summer.
500
“Steve went home early from work complaining of a headache. This was the third headache he had this week. He wondered if it would get any better”… later he goes to the doctor only to discover a he has a tumor. The part in quotation marks would be known as…
What is foreshadowing.
500
When Eli Whitney graduated from college in 1792, he took a job as a tutor on a plantation in Georgia. He began to see the need for a machine that would make producing cotton easier. He invented the cotton gin. The cotton gin is a machine that removes the seeds and other pieces of trash from cotton bolls. After 1800, the production of cotton in the United States doubled every 10 years. Eli Whitney made it possible for America to keep up with the demand for an important product. What was one effect of the cotton gin being invented? A) Plantation owners had to hire more people to pick cotton. B) The United States produced much more cotton than it could before. C) Plantations could no longer grow cotton on their land. D) Georgia became the largest cotton producer in America.
What is B) The United States produced much more cotton than it could before.
500
What is the figurative meaning: Running through the mall like a turkey with its head cut off, Mrs. Jones finally managed to find her three-year old daughter wondering through one of the stores.
What is Mrs. Jones was frantically running throughout the mall.
500
What is the figurative meaning of the metaphor: Anne was so excited about her weekend vacation that she couldn't stop talking about it all day. All she did was talk about her vacation. She couldn't talk about anything else. She was a real broken record.
What is Anne talks about the same thing over and over again?
500
“Thomas Jefferson was born in western Goochland County, Virginia. In 1760 he entered the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He later studied law and was reasonably successful as a lawyer, but his main source of income came from farming his land. In 1767 Jefferson began work on his mountaintop estate, Monticello, near what is now Charlottesville, Virginia. He designed the mansion himself.” Which of the following can the reader infer from the passage above? A) Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. B) Jefferson was a man with many experiences. C) Jefferson was the third president of the United States. D) Thomas Jefferson was born in western Goochland County, Virginia.
What is B) Jefferson was a man with many experiences.