Plot
What Literary Device is this?
Story Terms
"Sorry, Wrong Number"
Buzzwords
100

The beginning of a story where the characters and setting are given is the _____________

What is Exposition?

100

The leaves danced in the wind.

What is personification?

100

Another name for the main character is the __________

What is protagonist?
100

Where is Elbert Stevenson going on his business trip?

What is Boston?


100

A story that is based on true events.

What is nonfiction?

200

When Percy finds out the lightning bolt has been stolen and that he is to blame. This is the ________ of the story.

What is Conflict?

200
Her heart is a heavy stone in her chest.

What is metaphor?

200

The message or lesson of a story is the __________.

What is the theme?
200

Mrs. Stevenson could not have the call traced _______ because she did not have a warrant.

What is legally?

200

The three types of author's purpose: Persuade, Inform and ___________.

What is entertain?

300

The majority of a story occurs inside the ________________.

What is Rising Action?

300

Batman broke the basketball by bumping it into the board.

What is alliteration?

300

The main idea of a story based on specific details is the ________ idea.

What is central?

300

The outdated term for someone disabled by illness or injury is _____________

What is invalid?

300

When two characters talk to each other in a story.

What is dialogue?

400
The type of conflict between a person and the weather is called _________ conflict.

What is external?

400

It's raining cats and dogs!

What is idiom?

400
STEAL provides _________ characterization

What is indirect?

400

Mrs. Stevenson is very whiny and says things in __________ fashion.

What is querulous?

400

The three elements of setting are ________, time, and weather.

What is place?

500

The final part of a story is tied up neatly or is a _____________.

What is cliffhanger?

500

I died laughing at his joke.

What is hyperbole?

500

Connotation is the __________ you get from a word.

What is feeling?

500

Who is the author of "Sorry, Wrong Number"? First and last name.

Who is Lucille Fletcher?

500

The attitude of the author.

What is tone?