Parts of a Narrative
Plot lines
Commonly Confused Words
Ella Minnow Pea
The Whispers Private Life in Stalin's Russia
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True or False: The plot is the central struggle or tension that the characters face, providing the story's problem to be resolved

What is False

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True or false: climax is the height of the story

what is true

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Give an example of two, to, and too

TBD

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Who is the main character in Ella Minnow Pea?

Ella Minnow Pea

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When did this story take place? Who is ruling? 

1920-1930 and Joseph Stalin

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Define setting

What is The time and place where the story takes place
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What 3 things are cruical in the exposition?

what is setting, characters, and background information
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The snow had no effect/affect on the school's decision to close early. 

what is effect

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Who is seen as the government in Ella Minnow Pea? 

The High Council

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What is word for a market gardener

Kulak

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Define theme

What is The main underlying idea or message that the story conveys

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What does Rising action mean? 

what is the series of events that builds tension and introduces complications for the protagonist
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Is this sentence correct? I have fewer time now because I have been waiting so long

No, it should say less

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how old is mr raderstorf

297

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Klavdiia's father did what for work? 

What is market gardening

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The part of a narrative where struggles/tension is faced

What is conflict
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Where does the falling action fall on a plot line? 

What is second to last

400

give an example of using they're, there, and their

TBD

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Where are we at on a plot line in Ella Minnow Pea

RIsing action

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How were the Kulak's treated?

Arrested, imprisoned, and labor camps

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Name all 5 pieces of a narrative

What is plot, setting, characters, conflict, theme

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Name all 5 parts of a plot line

What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution

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Is the affect/effect used in the following correct? The counselor hopes the training will effect the campers’ boating skills.

Incorrect, it is affect. 
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What last two letters did we lose? 

U and V

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What is most closely a central idea of the excerpt?

A. Sympathy for the peasantry is viewed as disobedience among the ranks of the Communists.

B. Lev Kopelev reveals his personal thoughts about the Komsomol brigade decades after the event.

C. The collectivizers justify the persecution of the kulaks as necessary in the pursuit of political change.

D. Klavdiia Rublyova takes care of her siblings when her father is imprisoned in a labor camp.

what is C