Plot
place in story where the characters and their situation are introduced
What is basic situation?
What is exposition?
ambled, struggled, noticed, attacked, drove
What are powerful verbs?
a brief analytical precis
What is four-sentence summary of a text or story?
Harry Pope and Timber Wood call Dr. Ganderbai to help them with a deadly krait snake.
What is 'Poison"?
the anxiety the writer creates in the reader
What is suspense?
problem or struggle
What is conflict?
word choice of the speaker or writer
What is diction?
author, title of book, genre, thesis statement
What is the content of the first sentence?
General Zaroff tracks Rainsford through the jungle on Ship-Trap Island?
What is "The Most Dangerous Game"?
when the reader expects one thing to happen but something else happens instead
What is irony?
man vs. self
What is internal conflict?
empty words that are so over used they lose their impact: went, get, very
What are trite words?
The writer's relationship with the audience
What is the content of the fourth sentence?
Roger tries to mug Mrs. Jones who then drags him home to feed and give him money for blue suede shoes.
What is "Thank you, M'am"?
to say one thing but mean something else
What is verbal irony?
the action the main characters takes to resolve their conflicts
What is complication?
What is rising action?
for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
What is fanboys?
tells a little bit of the plot
What is the second sentence?
After his mother locks him out of the house, Richard fights his way to the grocery store and earns the rights to the streets of Memphis
What is "Black Boy"?
sometimes called denouement, it is how the story wraps up
What is resolution?
The outcome of the conflict, highly intense
What is climax?
set in a time earlier than the main story.
What is flashback?
tells the purpose of the author's story
What is the third sentence?
Two men Gradwitz and the Znaeym feud over a strip of land, are trapped under a tree, and attacked by wolves
What is "The Interlopers"?
this frequently has multiple meanings
What is a title?