Show:
Setting
Plot
Character
Theme
Style
100
What is the setting?
What is where/when a story takes place
100
What is plot
What is the action of a story
100
What are characters?
What are fictional personality about whom the story line revolves
100
what is theme?
What is the story's insight into the life, the moral or lesson to be learned
100
What is style?
What is techniques
200
What are examples time, place, and atmosphere/mood?
What is Time:Hour, date, season, historical event, and era in which the story occurs. Place: Physical and social location(s) of the story. Atmosphere/mood:the feeling of a certain time.
200
What is conflict
What is the struggle of characters.
200
What is the difference between a protagonist and an antagonist?
What is a protagonist is the main character/ the one we follow the most, an antagonist is the force that struggles against the protagonist.
200
What question should you ask when talking about theme?
What is "What lesson does the main character learn?"
200
What are first, second,and third person points of view?
What is 1. narrated by you 2. you 3. narrated by an outsider of the story.
300
What is the "local color"
What is the flavor of a community.
300
Name all the types of conflict
What is man vs. man society himself machine fate or god nature Alien/Beast
300
What is a flat character?
What is a one dimensional aspect
300
What is a thematic concept?
What is the over arching theme and/or motif
300
What are poysyndeton?
What is the beginning phrases, clauses, and complete sentences with "and" build up tension, rhythm and show of emphasis.
400
What is the atmosphere equation
What is time+place=atmosphere
400
What happens in the exposition and in the climax?
Exposition: meet the characters, see the setting, situation exposed Climax: highest point of action
400
What are stock characters?
What are stereotypes; their nature is immediately known
400
what are examples of thematic concepts?
What are: bildungsroman epiphany civilization/ nature isolation/ solidarity forgiveness/ revenge loss/recapture tradition/ progression advancements ahead of society intellectual/visceral reason/instinct
400
What are the 3 types of irony?
What is verbal, situation, and dramatic
500
give an example of the atmosphere equation in which either the time or place stays the same.
ex: 7:05am + school= learning 7:05pm + school=school dance
500
What is the order of the plot structure?
What is exposition, incentive moment, rising action, suspense, climax, falling action, resolution.
500
name the types of characters
flat, round, static, dynamic, foil, and stock
500
What is bildungsroman?
What is the coming of age
500
Name 15 types of figurative language (if you can give the definition for all of them, you will get 50 bonus points)
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