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Narration Style
Character Relationships
A Long Way Gone
Vocabulary
Plot Stages
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When the main character of a story is also the person narrating the story.
What is First Person Narration?
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This character often gets frustrated with Lenny but also feels responsible for him and typically apologizes to him after yelling.
Who is George in Of Mice and Men.
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Typically mined by hand by small groups of local villagers, profits from these precious stones can sometimes be used to fund rebel armies.
What are blood diamonds?
100
Sick from lack of nutrients and/or food.
What is malnourished?
100
In this early part of the story, the main characters and setting are introduced.
What is the exposition? (introduction)
200
When you are main character in the action. This is the narration style of the Choose Your Own Adventure series.
What is Second Person Narration?
200
Marjane's relationship with Him changes over time. They are very close when she is young but over time her interests change and they drift apart. She blames HIM for the loss of her Uncle.
Who is God?
200
Early in the story, Ishmael and his friends are fascinated with this musical style.
What is rap or hip-hop?
200
Extreme tiredness either from exercise or lack of sleep.
What is fatigue?
200
The most exciting part of the story. The conflict comes to a peak and the reader doesn't always know what will happen next.
What is the climax?
300
When the narrator of the story is not a part of the action and is instead an outside observer who can read the thoughts and feelings of ONE CHARACTER.
What is Third Person Limited narration?
300
Try as he might, this former boxer can not seem to keep track of his flirtatious wife.
Who is Curley?
300
This group formed in Sierra Leone as a result of unfair and corrupt government. They were infamous for forcing children to fight and for committing terrible acts against innocent people.
What is the Revolutionary United Front?
300
To damage, injure, maim, or disfigure. A terrified Lenny did this to Curley's hand.
What is to mangle?
300
In the resolution of a fiction story, author's often include this to show that the characters in the story have become wiser. Hint: it is a part of your fiction Main Idea.
What is the lesson learned?
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The narration style of Mr. Clark's favorite Sci-Fi series where the narrator is not a character in the story and can read the thoughts and feelings of many other characters.
What is Third Person Omniscient?
400
He often feels left out and isolated on the ranch because of his race. After being threatened by Curley's wife, he says he is no longer interested in moving with Lenny, George, and Candy.
Who is Crooks?
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In Chapter Two, the author uses this technique to switch back and forth between Ishmael's past life in Sierra Leone and his current life in New York City.
What is flashback?
400
To cause someone to feel anxious, troubled, or uneasy.
What is agitate?
400
Almost all stories have one. In Of Mice and Men, George and Lenny want to make a good life for themselves despite Lenny's disability. In Persepolis Marjane is trying to be a kid in a country experiencing a violent revolution.
What is a conflict? (problem)
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The narration style of Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.
What is the Third Person Objective?
500
In Bougainvillea, he protects Iza and offers her advice until he is bitten by a zombie and becomes infected.
Who is Behito?
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In Chapter Two, Ishmael has a nightmare in which he buries his own dead body. Here, the author uses ____________ to help readers infer that while fighting, Ishmael was most afraid of his own death.
What is symbolism?
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The meaning of the prefix -IR as in irrational, irregular, irresponsible or irresistible.
What is "not."
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As we learn more about the characters and the conflict becomes more and more serious, we experience the ________ __________ of the story.
What is the rising action?