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