Theme/ POV
Plot/ Conflict
Characterization
Tone/Mood
Active Reading
100
The Point of View that uses the word "I"
What is first person?
100
Define exposition.
The introduction to a story.
100
Define Characterization.
What is the way an author introduces/describes a character?
100
The way an author feels about his/her text.
What is tone?
100
Using gathered information to make an educated guess at what is going to happen next
What is a prediction?
200
The Point of View that uses "he" "she" "they" etc.
What is third person?
200
The part of a story leading up to the climax.
What is Rising Action?
200
How a character looks or dresses,
What is physical description?
200
The reader's emotional response to a text.
What is mood?
200
Being critical of ideas in the text and your own understanding of the text
What is questioning?
300
Can a theme be the following: "love" "fear" "time" "romance"?
No.
300
The most exciting/ intense part of the story.
What is the climax?
300
He thinks Juliet is the love of his life and is willing to die for her.
Who is Romeo?
300
A short story we read where the tone is bitter, intense, dystopian, unrealistic.
What is Harrison Bergeron?
300
Taking a new piece of information to make clear something that was previously vague or unstated.
What is a clarification?
400
Time is far too valuable to waste.
What is a solid theme from the film "In Time"?
400
The events following the climax.
What is the falling action?
400
What is one character trait of Eckels from A Sound of Thunder?
What is terrified of being eaten by a T-Rex?
400
The mood of something like Schindler's List or The Scarlet Ibis?
What is depressing?
400
Making a judgment about a character/situation based on your opinion.
What is an evaluation?
500
What is the difference between "third person omniscient" and "third person limited"?
Omniscient- the narrator can see EVERYTHING. Limited- the narrator can only see one character's point of view.
500
The ending of a story.
What is the resolution?
500
What are the four different ways a reader learns about a character?
Physical Description, character's thoughts, other character's thoughts about the character, narrator's comments.
500
Explain the difference between tone and mood.
Tone is the author's feeling toward a subject; mood is the reader's emotional response.
500
Bringing together this work with something from your own life OR something from a different work that you feel is similar OR something from the world in general.
What is a connection?