What is the second part of the plot where the main character takes steps to fix the problem?
100
Name the type of indirect characterization used in the following sentence: "The large woman simply turned around and kicked him right square in his blue-jeaned sitter. Then she reached down, picked the boy up by his shirt front, and shook him until his teeth rattled."
What is action?
100
Explain how authors create setting.
What is through imagery (the five senses)?
100
Describe what information we can know through a first-person narrator.
What is only the thoughts and feelings of him or her?
100
Describe how an author develops a theme that reveals a truth about human behavior.
What is the author lets the characters act out the idea for us?
200
Define climax.
What is the third part of the plot that is a turning point in the story?
200
Name the type of indirect characterization used in the following sentence: "The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice.”
What is appearance?
200
List the type of sense the following sentences illustrate: "A SMALL SHED had been added to my grandmother's house years ago. Some boards were laid across the joists at the top, and between these boards and the roof was a very small [attic]."
What is sight?
200
Define third-person limited narrator.
What is a narrator who is not in the story but who only focuses on one character's thoughts and feelings?
200
Describe how an author utilizes theme through the second way discussed.
What is an author shows the world how it should be versus what it's really like?
300
Define resolution.
What is the last part of the plot which tells how everything ends?
300
Name the type of indirect characterization is used in the following sentences: "Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with gladsome looks, “My dear Scrooge, how are you? When will you come to see me?” No man or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a place, of Scrooge."
What is other characters' thoughts?
300
List the type of sense that the following sentences illustrate: "A bed had been spread on the floor. I could sleep quite comfortably on one side; but the slope was so sudden that I could not turn on my other without hitting the roof. The rats and mice ran over my bed; but I was weary."
What is touch?
300
Name at least one of the questions you should ask yourself to determine point of view.
What is 1)How the story would differ if someone else told it, 2) Whose opinions do we hear, 3) Where do the storyteller's sympathies lie?
300
Theme is oftentimes implied, meaning that it is not this.
What is directly stated?
400
Give an example of a man versus nature conflict.
What are storms, natural disasters, etc.?
400
Name the type of characterization used in the following sentence: “Oh, but he was a tightfisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!"
What is direct characterization?
400
List the sense that the following sentences illustrate: "I heard the voices of my children. There was joy and there was sadness in the sound. It made my tears flow. How I longed to speak to them!"
What is hearing?
400
Name the point of view in the excerpt below: As the girl walked up the hill, she realized that the atmosphere was just too quiet.
The cardinal tipped his head back and drew breath to sing, but just as the first note passed his beak he heard the crack of a dead branch far below his perch high in the maple tree. Startled, he looked down, watching with great interest while the man rattled the blades of grass as he tried to hide himself behind the tree.
What is omniscient?
400
Explain how we think critically about theme.
What is we make a judgment about it to see if its valid?
500
Aside from man versus nature, list the other two types of conflict.
What is man versus self/man and man versus society?
500
Explain why indirect characterization requires more "work" on the part of the reader than direct characterization.
What is indirect characterization requires readers to make inferences about characters based on the information the author gives them whereas the author tells you everything in direct characterization?
500
List the two senses that the following sentences illustrate: "I was eager to look on their faces; but there was no hole, no crack, through which I could peep. This continued darkness was oppressive. It seemed horrible to sit or lie in a cramped position day after day, without one gleam of light."
What are sight and touch?
500
Name the point of view in the excerpt below: 3. As she walked up the hill, she realized that the atmosphere was just too quiet. There was no sound from the cardinal who she so often heard singing from the top of the maple tree. She thought she saw a shadow move high up on the slope, but when she looked again it was gone. Nevertheless, she shuddered as she felt a silent threat pass over her. It felt like a cloud creeping over the sun.
What is 3rd person limited?
500
Explain how authors used to use theme as a way to teach something.
What is authors used to use theme to teach morality (what's wrong and what's right) by rewarding "good" characters and punishing "bad" characters?