General Lectures
The where and when of a story.
What is setting?
The framework that underlies the order and manner in which a narrative is presented to a reader.
What is structure?
HBO's Game of Thrones is based on a series of novels written by this author.
Who is George R.R. Martin.
A comparison using like or as. Example: Her beauty shone as bright as the sun.
What is a simile?
A struggle between opposing forces
What is conflict?
Expressions that either have a general meaning or have “lost their meaning” over time.
What is cliche.
A story told in chronological order.
Traditional structure.
This is the state capital of Texas.
What is Austin?
A direct comparison. Example: This classroom is a zoo.
What is a metaphor?
Follows the falling action.
What is the ending?
New perspective / new speaker.
What is to start a new paragraph?
A story told in broken time, mimicking memories and how the cognitive mind works.
Fragmented structure.
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the first United States Postmaster General.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
A saying or expression that is widely used among speakers of a certain language and whose figurative meaning is different from its literal meaning.
What is idiom?
Follows the climax.
What is falling action?
A conversation between two or more characters in a story.
What is dialogue?
Heaviness, seriousness of a subject matter.
What is weight?
The pilot whose nimble maneuvers safely landed a malfunctioning plane in the Hudson River.
Sully Sullenberger
A literary device that evokes a sensory experience or creates a picture with words for a reader.
What is imagery?
Dialogue is separated from the narration by these symbols.
What are quotation marks?
A way to treat heavy subject matter indirectly but still alluding to it.
What is lightness?
Who is the best exceptional education teacher at Rincon High School?
Mr. Geurts
Giving human like qualities to non-human objects. Example: The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.
What is personification?
Any obstacle or conflict that increases the tension of the story's conflict
What is complication?