Elements of Plot
This information is introduced in the exposition of a story.
What is the characters, setting, & main conflict?
When an author reveals a character's traits through speech, thoughts, effect on other characters, actions, and looks (STEAL) instead of saying it outright.
What is indirect characterization?
This should be in the top left corner of all of your essays:
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Teacher
Class
Date
Fix the following sentence:
the car was green
The car was green.
Who played Barbie in the Barbie movie?
Margot Robbie
This is the thing that introduces the conflict in to the story
Inciting Incident
When an author gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. Provide an example from a work we have read for class.
What is foreshadowing? Examples may vary.
The following quote is from page 68 of 1984 by George Orwell. Please the the proper intext citation.
"But the rest of the story had got to be written down"
(Orwell 68)
Name the part of speech the the bolded word is apart of:
The orange cat ran fast!
Adjective
This is the year that the International Astronomical Union declared Pluto a dwarf planet
2006
The turning point of the plot & give an example from one of the works we've read.
What is climax? Examples may vary.
The comparison of two things using "like" or "as" to make the description more vivid. Provide an example.
What is simile? Examples may vary.
Fix the following quote with intext citation:
'John is the dumbest person I have every met." Costa, 5)
"John is the dumbest person I have ever met" (Costa 5).
Name the part of speech the the bolded word is apart of:
The obtuse guard threw me out of the palace because he wouldn't let me see Queen Elizabeth
Proper Noun
This movie won best picture at the 2023 Oscars
Everything, Everywhere, All at once
These are the four types of external conflict.
What is (1) character vs character, (2) character vs nature, (3) character vs society, and (4) character vs machine?
This is one way to find theme in a work.
What is significance of the title; main character's changes; straight up announcements; main conflicts?
Take line 3 and 4 from Robert Frost's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" and create and quote and intext citation for them:
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so and hour.
"Her early leaf's a flower;/But only so and hour." (Frost 3-4)
Fix the following comma splice:
I took my dog to the park, he ran around with his doggy friends.
(multiple different answers)
How many minutes are there in a year?
525,600
Draw and label a plot diagram
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When two things or ideas are placed close together with contrasting effect.
What is juxtaposition?
Explain why Edgar Allen Poe's poem "The Raven" is in quotation marks, but John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men is italicized
poems are short form, where as novels/books are long form
This type of punctuation can be defined as follows:
What is a semicolon?
This children's cartoon taught audiences what the plastic tip on a shoelace was called
Phineas and Ferb