Film Analysis and Plot Structure
The death of his wife, Ellie and the potential loss of their shared home pushes Carl to finally begin his journey to Paradise Falls
What is the inciting incident?
The character that drives Coraline's external conflict
Who is the Other-Mother?
What is connotation?
What happened to Other Wybie after helping Coraline escape?
What is a literal question/He was destroyed by the other mother?
The number of paragraphs in an ECR
What is four?
Coraline and Wybie dispose of the key to the other world by dropping it down the well
What is falling action?
The character that drives Carl Fredriksen's internal conflict
Who is Russell?
The literal meaning of a word or excerpt
What is a denotation?
Why did Carl Fredricksen promise to keep Kevin safe?
What is an interpretive question?/Because he reminds Carl of Ellie when they were younger
The punctuation that paragraph numbers go in when citing evidence
What are parenthesis?
Carl adopts Russell and begins his next adventure as a father
What is resolution?
The change that Roger experiences in "Thank you Ma'am"
What is trusting in community?
A situation in which two words have the same grammatical form. For example, the words are both singular or plural, masculine, feminine, etc.
What is noun agreement?
Why is Russell still on Carl's porch when Carl Fredricksen begins his journey to Paradise Falls?
What is a literal question/What is the snipe?
How to start an ECR and SCR
What is restating the prompt?
Coraline uses a hidden door in her apartment and stumbles into another world that is inhabited by better parents and neighbors
What is rising action?
The change Coraline experiences in "Coraline"
What is learning to appreciate what you have/finding the magic in the real world?
A change in the time frame within a text.
What is a tense shift?
Can we ever be positive about how we are perceived by other people? What story is this question related to?
What is a universal question/What is Flipped?
The final paragraph of an ECR
What is the conclusion?
Orpheus almost successfully makes it back to the land of the living with Eurydice but he can't help but look back. When he does so, Eurydice disappears.
What is the climax?
The internal conflict in "The Circuit"
What is fitting in/not being able to speak English?
The main idea of an informational or argumentative piece of text.
What is a thesis?
How do we stop grieving after losing someone close to us? What Springboard story is this question related to?
What is a universal question?/What is Orpheus and Eurydice?
The three things you do in the first paragraph of an ECR?
What is restating the prompt, making a claim, and explaining why?