Setting
Mood
Plot
Name that Conflict!
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100
What are the three aspects you have to consider when finding the setting of a text?
The physical, temporal, and cultural context.
100
How do we identify Mood in a story?
Pay attention to the connotations of descriptions.
100
Name the five phases of plot. IN ORDER.
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution.
100
Man vs. Nature!
100
What is the difference between a utopia and a dystopia?
A utopia is an ideal version of the world, where everything is perfect (according to an ideology or religion).
A dystopia is a nightmare version of the world.
200
What aspects of a temporal setting do we have to keep in mind when reading?
The technology available/unavailable to the characters, the political climate of the time, major events impacting life during that era....
200
What is mood?
The feeling or atmosphere a story creates for the reader (us).
200
What element of fiction drives the plot of a story forward?
Conflict!
200
Man vs. Self
200
What do we call "a reference to a person, place, or literary/historical/artistic/mythological source or event?
An allusion
300
What is the physical setting of Harrison Bergeron?
The physical setting is in America, in the Bergeron's home/living room, and/or in the ballet studio.
300
How does Foreshadowing (early clues about what will happen later) impact mood?
It can build suspense for the reader. It can create a sense of anxiety, tension, or fear.
300
In which plot phase do we explore setting, characters, and mood?
Exposition
300
Man vs. Society
300
What point of view is told through the eyes of a singular character? ("I went..." "I am...")
First Person
400
How can a story's setting contribute to what we know about a character?
By how the character reacts to the setting. (Ex. Harrison Bergeron seizing the opportunity at the ballet tells us he's brave and bold.)
400
What was the dominant mood in "Searching for Summer?"
Dismal, depressing, sad, dreary, drab
400
What phase is the pinnacle of the plot?
The climax.
400
Man vs. Technology
400
What is the difference between a "flat" vs. a "round" character?
A flat character is an unoriginal and un-interesting character.
A round character is a character as complex and flawed as a real person.
500
How can plot and setting be interconnected?
The setting creates conflict/ The action in the plot is so closely tied to the setting, that the plot is driven by the setting.
500
What is connotation?
The personal meaning we think of for a singular word. (Remember, "crammed" vs. "cozy?")
500
What happens during the Rising Action phase of plot?
The main character encounters complications arising from the main conflict.
500
Man vs. Nature
500
What is the difference between a "static" character and a "dynamic" character?
A static character doesn't change or grow over the course of a story.
A dynamic character does grow and change over the course of a story.
600
Name two types of conflict a setting can create.
Man vs. Society, Man vs. Technology, Man vs. Nature
600
How can mood be created in film? (Name either the 3 C's or the 3 S's.)
C's: Color, Character, Camera
S's: Story, Setting, Sound
600
What is the turning point between Exposition and Rising Action?
The Inciting Incident.
600
Man vs. Society
600
In what point of view can the narrator be invisible, yet view everything?
Omniscient POV