Punctuating Dialogue
Characterization
Figurative Language
Stories We've Read
Plot Elements
100

What does dialogue describe?

What is conversation? 

100

What is characterization?

What is the process by which an author reveals their character?

100

What is a simile?

What is a comparison using like or as?

100

what happens to the old man in The Tell Tale Heart?

What is murder? What is suffocation? What is dismemberment?

100

Name the third element of plot.

What is climax?


200

What shows dialogue ownership?

What is a tag line?

200

What is direct characterization?

What is when the author TELLS you something about their character?

200

What is personification?

What is when something that is non-human is described with human characteristics?

200

Why does the narrator want to kill the old man in The Tell Tale Heart?

What is the old man's eye? What is the eye of the vulture?

200

Name the first and last elements of plot?

What are exposition and resolution?


300

What do commas separate in correctly punctuated dialogue?

What is dialogue and tag lines? 

300

What is indirect characterization?

What is when the author SHOWS you something about their character?

300

What is alliteration?

What are repetitions of the same first letter of words that are close to each other. For example, Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore.

300

What is the climax of The Monkey's Paw?

What is when Herbert returns to the White family home... as a zombie?

300

The problem that the story addresses?

What is conflict?

400

The principal said, "Everyone please stand for the pledge". Is the period in the correct place in this sentence?

What is absolutely not.

400

Is dialogue used in direct or indirect characterization?

What is indirect? A character's conversation with another shows something about their personality, it doesn't tell.

400

What is a metaphor?

What is a comparison that does not use like or as but instead compares things by saying that they are each other?

400

What connected all of the characters in Seedfolk?

What is living in the same apartment complex/ housing project? What is being an immigrant?

400

The plot element that takes up the majority of the story - the build up to the main event?

What is rising action?

500

"Wow!" said Miss Platt, "you're great at punctuation." Is this sentence punctuated properly?

What is absolutely yes!

500

What is a tool writers - especially poets - use to make their characterization even more impactful?

What is figurative language?

500

What is assonance?

What is the repetitions of vowel sounds in words that are close to each other. For example, how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

500

How much does the White family get as compensation for Herbert's death?

What is 200 pounds?

500
The French word for falling action?

What is denoument?