Characters
What is the definition of a protagonist?
The main character, the hero, the person's point of view from which the story is told.
What is the figurative language below?
Her skin was pale like the moon.
Simile
I ran into the street, scraping my mind, trying to remember where my purse was. I suddenly was thrown off my feet and heard a crunch, unable to move through the searing pain as people clamored around me.
What happened?
She was hit by a car.
What point of view is being described?
- I, me, my, myself.
- Narrator is a character in the story.
- Can only hear the narrator's thoughts.
First Person Point of View
What is the name of the House Elf in Harry Potter?
Dobby
What is the definition of an antagonist?
The rival, the opposition.
What is the figurative language used below?
He was a dictator in the classroom.
Metaphor
The barbed wire fence gleamed around the compound as we all were rushing around for the four a.m. morning roll call. Our numbers tattooed on our arms were shouted out in German as we huddled together, trying to use our body heat to warm us because our old tattered clothing provided none. We could barely hear the Komendant over the roars of our malnourished stomachs.
Where are they?
A concentration camp
What is the point of view being described?
- Uses the word she/he, they, herself/himself.
- Narrator is outside of the story.
- Can only hear one character's thoughts.
Third Person Limited
What author said, "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."?
Dr. Seuss
What is a static character?
A character that does not undergo a significant change.
What is the figurative language used below?
I could eat a whole horse!
Hyperbole
A smile hovered above a tree, guiding a child Through brambles and brier To the home of a rabbit, a madman, a queen She claimed not to be mad, but how could that be? We are all mad here, both you and me.
What story does the poem describe?
Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Narrator is outside of the story.
- Can follow multiple characters outside of the story, but only one at a time.
- Uses he/she/it.
Third Person Multiple
What character said the following quote?
"Fly, you fools."
Gandalf
What is a dynamic character?
A character that goes through a change, or develops in some way.
What is the figurative language used below?
Take the bull by the horns.
Idiom
A young woman in need of my friend's services was being entertained by him in the parlour of our flat.
"Why have you waited so long to file a child abuse law suit against your father?" He asked her evenly.
"I never spoke about my father." She stuttered, glancing at me then once again at my companion, "H-how did you know?"
"I didn't know, I saw and deduced the obvious," My associate responded, "I can tell by the shadows under your eyes and the state of your knees that you have been scrubbing his floors late into the night. I can see your general distrust of men by the way you put space between me and my companion and look ready to dash to the door of our flat at a moment's notice. I can tell that you have wounds, probably both old and new, across your body because of how gingerly you sit on that arm chair. The beatings don't happen often, I believe, because you keep forgetting you are bruised and try to lean back into the chair before you are reminded of the bruises, via the pain you feel, but I believe the beatings are brutal."
The young woman's eyes shone, "I need to find actual evidence against him that couldn't have been from anyone else."
My companion smiled, "I've already found some."
What character(s) does the text above describe?
John Watson and Sherlock Holmes
- Narrator is outside of the story.
- Uses herself/himself/he/she.
- Narrator knows EVERYTHING! Kind of like God, sees everything, even the things the characters don't, knows their thoughts, but doesn't comment on them.
Third Person Omniscient
In the book "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien, what were the five armies?
The Eagles
Elves
Men
Dwarves
Orcs
What is a foil character?
A character that contrasts with another character, usually to make them look good or bad.
What does the idiom below mean?
Take the rose by the thorn.
Handle a problem fearlessly.
William grabbed John by the shoulder, "Take care of her, or I will kill you." He said as the heat got stronger and black ash flecks dotted his face.
"But you'll already be dead." John shouted over the crackling heat that roared in their ears.
"I know," William responded, voice braking. Before he had the chance to second guess his courage, he rushed into the furnace of a building to find his infant daughter.
What was going on around them?
A fire, a building was on fire.
- Outside narrator if any, could be a member of the story.
- Uses the word you, yourself, yours.
- Is used for instructional documents.
Second Person Point of View
In what book did the character see the movie, "The Sound of Music," but in the movie based off of that book see, "The Wizard of Oz?"
"Wonder" by R. J. Palacio