Challenges
Characteristics
Stages 1
Stages 2
Vocabulary
100
This is the topic we have been learning about in Unit 1.
What are heroes?
100
According to Oliver Stone's, "Where I Find My Heroes", he considered most heroes to be of this gender.
What is male?
100
This is the stage where the future hero is given notice that his or her life is going to change.
What is The Call to Adventure?
100
This is the name of a pattern that shows the development of a hero or story.
What is The Plot Structure (Diagram)?
100
This is a descriptive or figurative language use to create word pictures in a reader's mind.
What is imagery?
200
A character, symbol, story pattern, or other element that is common to human experience across cultures and that occurs frequently in literature, myth, and folklore.
What is an archetype?
200
The hero's ____________ are often absent or dead.
What are his/her parents?
200
This is the stage where the hero experiences and is transformed by a series of tests, tasks, or challenges.
What is The Road of Trials?
200
These are the five elements of the plot structure.
What are exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
200
This is the time and place in which a narrative occurs.
What is setting?
300
The hero's journey is often described in these three stages.
What are The Departure, The Initiation, and The Return?
300
According to Oliver Stone, he believed that heroes can be these kind of people.
What are "everyday average people"?
300
In the story's _____________, it introduces the hero, and soon the hero's normal life is disrupted.
What is the exposition?
300
This is the stage when the goal of the adventure is accomplished, the hero may refuse to return because the hero doubts the return will bring change.
What is The Refusal of the Return?
300
This is a struggle between opposing forces. For example, man vs. man, or man vs. nature.
What is conflict?
400
This is the number of stages we have learned in the hero's journey.
What are 10 stages?
400
A bully is an example of a ____________ of a hero.
What is a "negation"?
400
This is where the story develops as the hero faces a series of challenges that become increasingly difficult.
What is the rising action?
400
This is the stage where the hero experiences and is transformed by a series of tests, tasks, or challenges.
What is The Experience with Unconditional Love?
400
This is a writer's or speaker's choice of words.
What is diction?
500
In "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh", Joby felt afraid because of this challenge.
What is that he only had a drum. No weapons to defend himself?
500
The idea or concept of how a hero operates in the real world.
What is a "function"?
500
This is the stage where Batman defeats the League of Shadows and saves Gotham City.
What is The Ultimate Boon?
500
This is the final step of plot structure (diagram), the final point in the adventure.
What is the resolution?
500
This is the direct or literal meaning of a word.
What is denotation?