Plot Elements
What plot element is the problem in a story?
What is conflict?
Name the figurative language: I have heard that story a million times.
What is an hyperbole?
Technique authors use to tell an event that happened before the story takes place.
What is flashback?
What term is used to describe a person or personality in a story?
What is character?
Nicki overhears Julie talking about her outfit from the restroom stall. Outraged, Nicki busts out of the stall and confronts Julie about her mean comments.
What is external conflict OR character vs. character?
What plot element introduces the setting and the characters? This element reveals the conflict or sets the stage for it.
What is exposition or introduction?
Name the figurative language: Life is like a box of chocolates.
What is a simile?
Technique authors use to add interest about what may happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
What term is used to show what perspective a story is told from?
What is point of view (POV)?
What is the type of conflict where the character struggles with their thoughts and feelings?
What is internal conflict OR character vs. self?
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What plot element is the turning point in the story and the moment of greatest suspense?
What is climax?
Name the figurative language: Snap, crackle, pop!
What is onomatopoeia?
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A literary device where an author references a well-known person, place, or thing. Example: She had a Mona Lisa smile.
What is an allusion?
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What is the difference between third-person POV and first-person POV?
Acceptable response:
3rd- narrator tells the story (he, she, they)
1st- character tells the story (I, we)
A group of zombies attacked the town of Stacyville in attempts to devour the brains of all the children.
What is external conflict OR man vs. supernatural?
What plot element reveals a story’s final outcome?
What is resolution or conclusion?
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Name the figurative language: The breeze whispered as the trees danced in the wind.
What is personification?
This technique describes the atmosphere in a story?
What is mood?
What are one type of external conflict?
Acceptable Response:
character vs. character
character vs. nature
character vs. society
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Civil Rights movements are representative of a group rising against social injustice. What type of conflict is this?
What is external conflict OR man vs. society?
What is the name given to all the events that make up a story?
What is plot?
Name the figurative language: The book was a fountain of knowledge.
What is a metaphor?
This technique reveals the attitude the author tries to portray.
What is tone?
What term is used to describe what message the author wants to share about a universal truth with the reader? Also know as the BIG idea in a story.
What is theme?
A hurricane hits Maine unexpectedly and a family is forced to use a mattress as a floating device to reach safety.
What is external conflict OR man vs. nature?