Short Stories
The being telling the story, either in first-, second-, or third-person
Who is the narrator?
This is when an author tells us something about a character.
What is direct characterization?
A "TAG" line in an essay introduction stands for these three words.
What are Title, Author, and Genre?
What is rhyme?
This year's Summer Olympics are held in this country.
What is France?
The biggest moment of tension in a story when the protagonist must make a choice.
What is the climax?
Indirect characterization is different from direct characterization in this way.
What is, indirect characterization involves "showing"—not "telling" directly—something about a character.
A thesis can be defined with these two descriptors:
What are "arguable claim?"
What is the use of any combination of the senses to paint a picture in the reader's mind?
The modern classic, The Hunger Games, follows protagonist Katniss Everdeen's tribulations. This character's actress in the movie adaptations is _____.
Who is Jennifer Lawrence?
In order, the six components of a plot diagram
What are exposition, (initial) conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
This type of characterization involves a character having one main character trait.
What is a flat character?
This is the difference between plot summary and analysis.
What is plot as being what happens in the story and analysis being the writer's explanation of that plot's significance?
This poetic device involves identifying the same sounds within or at the end of lines.
What is rhyme scheme?
The stored energy of position possessed by an object is referred to as ___.
What is potential energy?
One may discuss this "big takeaway" in an essay to talk about the "so what?" of a short story.
What is a theme?
What is dynamic?
What are "a restatement of the main ideas/thesis" and "the big takeaways"
This is the major difference between a metaphor and simile.
While both compare two dissimilar things to create a new connection between both, similes use "like" or "as", while metaphors do not.
Name at least 9 different Pokémon types.
What are (any combination of): Normal, Fire, Water, Grass, Flying, Fighting, Poison, Electric, Ground, Rock, Psychic, Ice, Bug, Ghost, Steel, Dragon, Dark, and Fairy?
This narration style consists of the narrator "knowing all" and speaking with an objective point-of-view rather than a subjective one.
What is third-person omniscient (point-of-view)?
The lions in The Veldt are considered both ____ and ____ characters (identify two descriptors using the terminology introduced in class).
What are flat and static?
These words, such as "because", "whenever", and "without", can be used to add arguments or details in the second half of your sentences.
What are subordinating conjunctions/subordinating clauses?
This poetic device involves differentiating between stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
What is scansion?
This is the national animal of Scotland. For some reason.
What is the unicorn?