Archeology
What is the term?: to dig up something like bones, fossils, or other artifacts?
What is excavate?
The beginning of the story when the setting and characters are introduced.
What is the exposition?
first-person narrative is a mode of storytelling in which a storyteller recounts events from their own point of view using the first person such as "I", "us", "our" and "ourselves".
What is setting?
the location and time frame in which the action of a narrative takes place
What is point of view?
How the character thinks, feels, or their attitude toward a certain situation, person, or thing.
What is the term?: a person who studies human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.
What is an archeologist?
The events after the climax that lead up to the resolution.
What is the falling action?
What is second person point of view?
(not used much) The reader is immersed into the narrative as a character involved in the story. The narrator describes what "you" do and lets you into your own thoughts and background.
What is character development?
How the character changes as a person in the story as a result of events that happen to them.
What is the author's purpose?
Why the author is writing their text.
What is the term? a colony or any small community of people.
What is a settlement?
The events that lead up to the climax.
What is the rising action?
What is third person point of view?
the narrator is telling the story but not in the story themself. The narrator knows everything that is going on without being in the story.
What is theme?
a life lesson learned from the text that goes beyond the text; moral of the story; what the author is trying to teach you about life.
What does "p" stand for in PIE?
To persuade the reader/ convince them of something
a period of starvation during the winter of 1609–1610. There were about 500 Jamestown residents at the beginning of the winter. However, there were only 61 people still alive when the spring arrived.
What was the Starving Time?
The turning point or highest point of the story.
What is the climax?
What point of view is Blood on the River being told from?
First person point of view
What is central idea?
What the text is mainly about.
What does "i" stand for in PIE?
To inform the reader
What is the term: the study of human remains to help us understand the past
What is forensic anthropology?
The end of the story where everything is either resolved or left unresolved.
What is the resolution?
What point of view is Esperanza Rising being told from?
Third person point of view
What is non fiction?
A text that is only based on facts
What does "e" stand for in PIE?
To entertain the reader