The Plot Thickens
This plot point is the highest point of tension in a narrative essay. What the story has been building up to.
What is the climax?
In this kind of character arc, the main character doesn't change over the course of the story.
What is a flat or static character arc?
This is a group of readers who read a particular piece of writing.
What is audience?
This is the everyday, informal speech variety of a community. It often carries less prestige than the formal standard form, but is a fully structured and rule governed system of speech.
What is vernacular?
This peak of television animated tv show is about an Airbender named Aang who is trying to bring peace to the world by defeating the Fire Nation.
What is Avatar: The Last Airbender?
This plot point is about a significant change in the main characters world that starts their journey.
What is the inciting incident?
200 points for every correct answer:
Please give me (one at a time), examples of figurative language types:
What are: similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, allusion, idiom or onomatopoeia?
These three elements are rhetorical appeals that appeal to logic, emotion, and credibility.
What are ethos, pathos, and logos?
This refers to word choice - choosing the right word for the right situation, which can set the scene or evoke a particular mood in writing.
What is diction?
200 points for every course reading that you can name - you must know the reading name and the authors name.
What are (Insert Names Here)
These are the events that lead the reader from the beginning to the end of a narrative. They should be intentional and connect together.
What are plot points?
This is a form of writing that uses descriptive language to create mental images by engaging a reader's five senses.
What is sensory imagery?
This is a mix of author, audience, and purpose that all work together in writing. These three elements provide context for the writing and the expectations of the audience that we then call the ____.
What is genre?
This kind of diction is essentially neutral. It isn't too formal or too informal and can be used in a variety of settings.
What is "Middle diction"?
Gaming, Sport Fandoms, Work Groups, or fandoms in general are an example of these things.
What are discourse communities?
This is the point(s) of the story where the main character learns their lesson and settle into their new normal.
What are falling action and resolution?
These are the differences between literal and figurative language with an example for each.
What is figurate language is used to convey meaning in a way that differs from its literal meaning while literal language uses the exact meaning of the words being used?
Narrative, Argumentative, Informative, and Expository are all examples of this genre of writing.
This is a systemic variety of a language distinguished by its own pattern of pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar, linked to a specific region or social group.
400 additional points for the in-class examples of this thing that we watched videos about or read about.
What is dialect?
New Orleans, Appalachia, Southern California, Scottish English.
This is the most important rule to keep in mind when writing a paragraph.
What is keep one idea to one paragraph?
Battle Round: The first group to create a plot line on the board for one of the following stories gets all the points for this assignment: Cinderella, Spiderman, Avatar: the Last Airbender, Romeo and Juliet, The Lion King, Shrek, or The Three Little Pigs
What is (Insert plot line here)?
The Lego movie is an example of this kind of character arc.
These are the different rhetorical situations. (500 points for each named)
Purpose, Audience, Genre, Stance, Medium, and Diction.
The topic - smoking.
The first team to write 3 argumentative statements (one for ethos, one for pathos, and one for logos) will get all the points for this question.
What is (insert 3 sentences here)?
What is a verbal bridge is about using the same or similar words throughout a paragraph, while a logical bridge is about connecting ideas without using the same words?