Plot, Characters, and Conflict
What is the plot?
The events that happen in the story
What are hooks?
The first line of the story, which grabs the reader's attention.
What is the purpose of descriptive writing?
To immerse the reader in the story.
What font and font size are used in MLA formatting?
Times New Roman, 12.
Which U.S. state claims to be the diner capital of the world?
New Jersey
The people or animals that the story is about
What's dialogue?
The conversations that characters have with each other or themselves.
What is an adjective?
A word that modifies or describes a noun.
What type of spacing is used in MLA formatting?
Double spacing.
What singer's autobiography was titled "Man in Black"?
Johnny Cash
What is conflict?
The problems that occur in the story
Which punctuation indicates that dialogue is happening in a story?
Quotation marks.
What is a simile?
A comparison that uses like or as. EX: Her hair was as red as fire.
What is the information at the top of the first page of an MLA paper called? The wording MUST be exact to be correct.
What US state receives the most annual rainfall?
Hawaii
True or False: A story must have a plot.
True.
How can the reader tell that a new character is talking?
Each new line of dialogue is a separate paragraph and gets indented.
What is a metaphor?
A comparison that does not use like or as. Ex: Her hair was fiery.
The same as the rest of the paper: TNR 12pt font, not bolded or underlined, no extra spaces around it.
What city hosted the Summer Olympics in 1996?
Atlanta
Why must all stories have conflict?
Conflict drives the plot forward and makes the story interesting.
When punctuating dialogue, punctuation marks such as periods, commas, and questions marks go where?
Inside the quotation marks.
Descriptive writing is called what in poetry?
Imagery.
What does MLA stand for?
Modern Language Association
What was the first US city to have a public school system?
Boston