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Setting
Character
Plot/Conflict
Point of View
Other Elements
100
Authors use setting to help develop the vibe, of this, of a particular place.
What is mood?
100
When readers have to infer things about the character, an author is using this.
What is indirect characterization?
100
This is the part of the story with the most tension.
What is the climax?
100
When the reader is able to see all characters' perspectives, the author is using this point of view.
What is 3rd person omniscient?
100
This is the message the author is trying to convey through his/her story.
What is theme?
200
Setting allows readers to better understand these through descriptions of the surroundings.
What are characters?
200
"She had always been a good listener" is an example of this.
What is direct characterization?
200
"He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided." is this part of the plot of "The Most Dangerous Game".
What is the resolution?
200
In "The Open Window," the reader wasn't able to get the perspective of Ms. Sappleton, which means the author was using this point of view.
What is 3rd person limited?
200
This is a hint of things to come.
What is foreshadowing?
300
This aspect of setting is represented in the shabbiness of the bunkhouse in Of Mice and Men.
What is socioeconomic status?
300
This is the acronym of the 5 methods of indirect characterization.
What is STEAL?
300
"h amount of fuel will not power an EDS with a mass of m plus x safely to its destination." is an example of this type of conflict.
What is man v nature?
300
Choose your own adventure story uses this rare point of view.
What is 2nd person?
300
Vera telling the story about Mr. Nuttle's fear of dogs in "The Open Window" created this.
What is dramatic irony?
400
"With his remaining strength he dragged himself from the swirling waters. Jagged crags appeared to jut up into the opaqueness; he forced himself upward, hand over hand. Gasping, his hands raw, he reached a flat place at the top. Dense jungle came down to the very edge of the cliffs." This description of the island in "The Most Dangerous Game" serves this purpose.
What is development of mood?
400
"The woman drew the cracked shade down between the radio and the August sun." This is an example of this type of indirect characterization.
What are actions?
400
"When the woman realized that, she did what she had to do. She grabbed him whimpering; held him; held him under till the struggle ceased and the bubbles rose silver from his fur." Is an example of this part of plot.
What is the climax?
400
"How Far She Went" uses this point of view.
What is 3rd person omniscient?
400
Mr. Frampton running out of Ms. Sappleton's house is an example of this type of irony.
What is situational irony?
500
"Dead limbs creaked and clashed overhead like the antlers of locked and furious beasts." This description of setting serves this purpose.
What is increase the tension of the conflict?
500
"He doubled on his trail again and again, recalling all the lore of the fox hunt, and all the dodges of the fox." Rainsford's actions in "The Most Dangerous Game" show the reader this.
What are Rainsford's hunting skills?
500
"The general was playing with him! The general was saving him for another day's sport! The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse. Then it was that Rainsford knew the full meaning of terror." is an example of this type of conflict.
What is man vs. self?
500
When a story has an unreliable narrator this means it is using this point of view.
What is 1st person?
500
"She pecked the clay on Sylvie's grave, new looking, unhealed after years," shows the development of this in "How Far She Went".
What is a symbol?