Vocabulary
Sensitivity in dealing with others or with difficult issues.
What is tact?
The year Catch-22 takes place.
What is 1944?
A five-point dramatic structure consisting of linear events that peak at the climax before falling to resolution.
What is Freytag's Pyramid?
A logical guess using evidence from text, your own knowledge, and common sense.
What is an inference?
Read "The Lion & the Mouse". Identify the theme of the story.
What is kindness is never wasted?
Characterized by an unusual interest in disturbing and unpleasant subjects, especially death and disease.
What is morbid?
This officer is described as defensive, egotistical, and vindictive.
Who is General Dreedle?
A traditional model of plotting stories that focuses on the beginning, middle, and end while defining specific plot events that must take place at each stage.
What is the Three-Act Structure?
An inference about the future.
What is a prediction?
Comparing the events in Catch-22 to real-world combat would be making the following connection...
What is text-to-world connection?
To search thoroughly or plunder (take by force or fraud)
What is ransack?
This character is a crazy combat pilot who whistled show tunes and wore bedroom slippers.
Who is McWatt?
A storyline consisting of a series of escalating and de-escalating conflicts slowly pushing the story towards its climax.
What is the Fichtean Curve?
Explains the relationship that exists between two ideas or objects, when one acts upon the other, and then moves to create an impact on the third, separate idea or object.
What is Cause-and-Effect?
What is the cause in the following scenario: A woman hears a noise and calls for help.
What is "a woman hears a noise"?
Extremely wicked or deeply criminal
What is heinous?
Complete the sentence. "Colonel Cathcart wanted to be a General so desperately he was willing to try anything, even..."
What is religion?
A structure consisting of eight steps in which the protagonist transitions through changes in their world, traveling from order to chaos and back again.
Linking what you are reading to what you already know.
What is a connection?
What is the flashback of Snowden's death and Yossarian's critical choice to accept court martial or go home?
To act in agreement and in secret towards a deceitful purpose.
What is hope and a head start?
What is a 7-Point Structure?
The center, moving force, or principle of unity for a story.
What is the theme?
Infer the character's feelings in the following scenario: The young woman walked a bit hesitantly towards the famous cozy Italian restaurant. She did not believe the excuse her parents gave her for having to meet her at the restaurant instead of at their house.
What is uncertain or anxious?