Plot Structure
The events that make up a story
What is plot?
A comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
The reason why Henrietta's family was so upset with doctors
They took her cells without asking permission
The 'person' who tells the story to the audience in a work of fiction
What is the narrator?
The person Valentine's Day is named after
Who is Saint Valentine?
The most exciting part/the turning point of a story
What is the climax?
Giving an animal, object or idea human characteristics
What is personification?
This actress and talk show hosts stars in the HBO film about Henrietta Lacks
The angle or perspective from which a story is told
What is point of view?
The day that comes after Mardi Gras
What is Ash Wednesday?
Returning to past events, either in a dream or a memory
What is a flashback?
A word that imitates the sound it represents
Henrietta died of this
Cervical cancer
The main character in a story or play
Who is the protagonist?
The three core values at Iowa High School
What is respect, responsibility, and loyalty?
The events that occur after the climax of a story
What is falling action?
Repetition of the 1st consonant sound at the beginning of words.
ex. "She sells sea shells by the seashore."
What is alliteration?
Henrietta's cells kept ________________ outside of her body
What is multiplying?
The effect the writer creates in the reader
What is mood?
The state directly north of us
What is Arkansas?
The introduction of a story is also called this
What is the exposition?
A common phrase that isn't taken literally
What is an idiom?
Henrietta was this old when she died
What is 31?
The five main types of conflict
What is man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. self, man vs. society, and man vs. technology?
The color of a giraffe's tongue
What is black?