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Reading Strategies
Plot
Literary Elements
Characterization
Potpourri
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The Reading Strategy whose definition is to guess what might happen next in the story.
What is to predict or Prediction?
100
The part of plot in which the conflict is resolved.
What is the resolution?
100
The following is an example of this literary element: -before Europe and after blue-jeans in the fictional countries of Florin and Guilder
What is setting?
100
Joey Tribbiani's (Friends) famous line, "How You doin?" uses this type of characterization to establish that his character as a womanizer.
What is Speech?
100
This is the capital city of Afghanistan?
What is Kabul?
200
The reading strategy in use when the reader combines background knowledge with clues provided in the text to form an idea that is not explicitly given by the author. Think 2 + 2 =4.
What is Infer?
200
This part of the plot is also known as the the "turning point" in the story's conflict.
What is the climax?
200
Luke Skywalker, Buddy the Elf, and Amir are all examples of this type of character.
What is a protagonist?
200
The following clip uses Leeloo's her actions to establish that her character possesses these traits. (2 minimum)
What is strong, well-trained, brave, agile etc.?
200
These are three subgenres of the popular fiction genre of mystery.
What are three of the following... Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Cozy, Police Procedural Whodunit, Psychological, Thrillers, Hard Boiled
300
These are the three different types of connecting that a reader may do.
What are text-to-self, text-to-text and text-to-world?
300
The part of the plot in which the audience becomes exposed the setting and characters in the story?
What is exposition?
300
Person vs. Self, Person vs. Person, Person vs. Nature, Person vs. Society are the four types of this literary element.
What is conflict?
300
This is the type of characterization that does not require the character to be present.
What is reactions/speech of others?
300
These three decades are known as the golden age of comics.
What are the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s?
400
One must "play the movie" of the book in one's head to use this reading strategy.
What is Visualize?
400
The action after the climax but before the end of the story?
What is falling action?
400
The following sentence is an example of what literary element taken from The Kite Runner: The only way complete forgiveness can occur is when one forgives oneself, and that will only occur when one has truly attempted to atone for the mistakes that one has made. Read more: http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/The-Kite-Runner-Critical-Essays-Themes-in-The-Kite-Runner.id-199,pageNum-66.html#ixzz18JGDJgbJ
What is theme?
400
This passage from Of Mice and Men use this type of characterization to establish the contrast between Lenny and George. "The first man was small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp, strong features. Every part of him was defined: small, strong hands, slender arms, a thina and bony nose. Behind him walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face, wih large, pale eyes, with wide, sloping shoulders; and he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws."
What is appearance?
400
This mystery term is similiar to the concept of inferencing and to the idea of closure in graphic novels.
What is deduction?
500
Examining different aspects of the text and forming opinions about them calls for this reading strategy. (i.e) General Zaroff is both savage and sophisticated.
What is Evaluate?
500
This part of the plot starts with the entrance of a conflict and includes all complications of that conflict.
What is rising action?
500
The use of white in literature to represent innocence or purity is an example of this literary element.
What is symbolism?
500
This passage uses this form of characterization to establish her apathy for life and her concern for and yet denial of her sister's condition. "I can see our boat now; coming around the corner from Alcatraz. It shouldn’t be but a few more minutes before I can get on and sit down. My sisters see the boat too and are excited, but I don’t think it’s because they want to sit down. Their energy is amazing, although I don’t see how. They got just as much sleep as I did, and Stacy hasn’t eaten for at least twenty-four hours. She says she’s not hungry, but looking at her now, I know it’s more than that. She is teasing Whitney while she paces up and down the other railing. A sweatshirt hangs off her shrunken frame, and her size zero shorts that are held up by a belt placed on its last loop. I don’t really want to think about it though, so I stare back down at the sea lions and pay attention to movement of the dock. Up then down, as if, for centuries it is the only thing that wood has known. I want to be that wood, solid, solitary, consistently mind-numbing."
What is the character's thoughts?
500
This is the definition of comics.
What is juxtaposed pictorial and other images in delibrate sequencial order to convey information or tell a story?