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Plot
Types of Characters
Ulysses
Poems
Grammar
100
The part of the story where all the loose ends are tied up and the conflict is resolved
What is the RESOLUTION?
100
This TYPE of character never changes or grows over the course of the story (6-letter word, starts with "S")
What is STATIC?
100
This character keeps Ulysses on her island and turned his men into pigs
Who is CIRCE?
100
This type of poem counts syllables. . . 5, 7, 5
What is HAIKU?
100
This type of word is an action word
What is VERB?
200
The most interesting or dramatic part of the story; the point where everything changes
What is the CLIMAX?
200
This TYPE of character does grow, develop, and change over the course of a story's events (7-letter word, starts with "D")
What is DYNAMIC?
200
This character really, really, really dislikes Ulysses and does everything he can to throw him off course.
Who is POSEIDON?
200
This type of poem has five lines with counted syllables. . . 2, 4, 6, 8, 2
What is CINQUAIN?
200
This word is a person, place, thing, or idea
What is NOUN?
300
The part of the story where characters run into many conflicts, one after another
What is the RISING ACTION?
300
Rikki-tikki-tavi is this TYPE of character
What is DYNAMIC?
300
This character spends years weaving a shroud for Ulysses so she won't have to marry suitors
Who is PENELOPE?
300
This type of poem is free verse--no rhymes, and it just lists parts or qualities of an object
What is CATALOG?
300
This type of word describes a noun
What is ADJECTIVE?
400
The part of the story where we are introduced to the characters and the setting is laid out
What is the EXPOSITION?
400
Nag and Nagaina are both what TYPE of character?
What is STATIC?
400
This character is blinded by Ulysses so he and his men can escape
Who is POLYPHEMUS THE CYCLOPS?
400
This type of poem has couplets--two lines grouped together. The last word of each line must rhyme
What is HEXADUAD?
400
This type of sentence is missing either a subject or a verb
What is A SENTENCE FRAGMENT/INCOMPLETE SENTENCE?
500
The part of the story where complications start to be solved; we see the results of the characters' choices
What is the FALLING ACTION?
500
In "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street," what TYPE of character is Pete Van Horn?
What is STATIC?
500
This character is the blind prophet Ulysses asks for help in Tartarus
Who is TEIRESIAS?
500
What is the title of the poem we read in class about four girls going down to the seashore? (Hint: it has alliteration in the title)
What is MAGGIE AND MILLIE AND MOLLY AND MAY?
500
FANBOYS are these types of conjunctions
What is COORDINATING?