Two elements that usually make up the setting of a story
What is TIME and PLACE
100
This type of character grows and changes over the course of a text
What is DYNAMIC CHARACTER?
100
This term refers to the sequence of events that make up a story. It often involves a conflict or a struggle.
What is PLOT?
100
This type of conflict involves a character's struggle with another person, force of nature, or society
What is EXTERNAL CONFLICT?
100
This is the feeling of the story you get as a reader--it's partly created by the setting. It can be formal or informal
What is MOOD?
200
The events that occur between the conflict and the resolution are known as...?
What is FALLING ACTION?
200
This type of characterization is when the author explicitly describes a character to the reader
What is DIRECT CHARACTERIZATION?
200
This technique gives the reader clues about what will happen later in a story
What is FORESHADOWING?
200
This type of conflict takes place within a character's mind
What is INTERNAL CONFLICT?
200
The story's main ideas or the "message" the author wants to communicate by telling the story. They are called universal truths and must always be in statement form
What is THEME?
300
The action of the story comes to its highest point at this part of the plot diagram.
What is THE CLIMAX?
300
This type of character does not grow or change over the course of a text
What is STATIC CHARACTER?
300
This term refers to the people, animals, or creatures who take part in the action of the story
What are CHARACTERS?
300
Define conflict.
The turning point; when the story changes.
300
This term refers to the clues in the story that suggest the writer or narrator's own attitude toward the elements in the story.
What is TONE?
400
The tension in a story that is full of plot complications, leading to the climax is called the ____________.
What is RISING ACTION?
400
This type of characterization is when an author shows a character's actions and the reader must make their own conclusions about the character's personality
What is INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION?
400
Explain the difference between a valid or an invalid theme.
Invalid themes are not able to be applied to real life.
Valid theme can be applied to real life.
If it is too good to be true it probably isn't valid.
400
What type of conflict occurs in the following scenario:
Mrs. Lewis pushed Ms. Nolan out of the way to get the last piece of pizza in the lunch line.
A. person vs. person
B. person vs. self
C. person vs. nature
D. person vs. society
What is PERSON VS. PERSON CONFLICT?
400
Give some strategies for determining the theme of a story.
Conflict--->Resolution--->Theme
Ask yourself what the characters learned as they changed throughout the story.
Various answers.
500
Another name for the beginning of a story - generally where we meet the characters and the scene is set?
What is EXPOSITION?
500
List the five methods of characterization
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
What ARE
1. What a character SAYS
2. What a character DOES
3. What a character THINKS OR FEELS
4. What OTHERS SAY/THINK about a character
5. What the character LOOKS LIKE
500
This term refers to the writing that tells a story--what the characters don't actually say.
What is NARRATION?
500
Name the type of conflict that described in the following scenario:
Rikki-tikki-tavi had to decide whether to go after both Nag and Nagaina at once or to come up with a different plan.
What is INTERNAL CONFLICT?
500
Name one theme your class discussed for "The 12 Dancing Princesses".
What is - If you continue to do the wrong thing, eventually you will get caught.