Plot
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling action, Resolution?
These are the two types of character traits (literary terms)
What are extrinsic and intrinsic?
This is where setting and characters should be introduced.
What is the exposition?
This is the technical term for imagery of taste.
What is gustatory imagery?
This author is famous for writing the most famous self-published Christmas story of all time.
Who is Charles Dickens?
This is another name for the resolution, and the original term for a book's conclusion.
What is denouement?
These are the two ways characters are given traits/ two types of characterization as told by an author.
What are indirect and direct characterization?
This is one way to describe how rising action should be structured.
What is river rapids/ increasing trials/ "Bigger Boulders"?
These are the seven parts of setting.
What are: the five types of imagery, time, social setting?
This is the pagan celebration from which many modern Easter traditions originated, including dyeing eggs and the Easter bunny.
Who is Eastre/Ostara/ What is the Spring Equinox?
(Double jeopardy: describe the original "dyed egg" ritual and its purpose)
This part of the book is the shortest- usually only a handful of pages.
What is the climax?
A character who does not undergo an internal change during the story is called this.
What is static?
A strong writer will do this with their sentence structure.
This type of imagery creates the strongest connections for readers, but is also most rare.
What is olfactory imagery?
This is the day you leave for Spring Break this year.
What is April 18?
What are plot and character?
This type of character often reveals the main themes of the story.
These types word (specific part of speech) should be avoided when possible, as they weaken the text.
What are "to be" verbs/ passive verbs?
This is the full setting of "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed."
Mars, Late 2000's, Settler town/ Martian Villas
Who is traditionally believed to have founded Rome, and what animal are they associated with?
Who are Romulus and Remus, and what is a wolf?
When the story resolves itself without the action of a character, it is called this name.
What is Deus Ex Machina?
This is the most common aspect of main characters, except in teaching stories.
What is dynamic?
This is the action and purpose of Magical Realism stories.
What is "to highlight social issues in life by treating the abnormal as normal, which emphasizes how the normal should not be normal?" (say that five times fast!)
Most writers rely too heavily on this aspect of description.
What is visual imagery?
This famous author swore she would never marry (but did), then lived in her deceased husband's mausoleum until her own death.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley?