Setting
Define Setting
Where or when a story takes place
Define Character
Someone in a short story, novel, show, or movie
Define Plot
A series of events that take place in a story; what happens in a story
Define CONFLICT
The problem or issue in a story
Why are the words "eras" and "renaissance" relevant in 2023
Taylor Swift's "Eras Tour" and Beyonce's "Renaissance World Tour"
Setting can be WHERE and WHEN something takes place, what else could you consider when talking about setting?
Weather, time period, sounds/tastes/smells, culture/social norms
What are the two types of characterization
Direct and indirect
What is the CLIMAX of a story
emotional high point of the story
What are the two types of conflict you could see in a story
Internal and External Conflict
What do the last two movies of the series' Harry Potter, Hunger Games, and Twilight all have in common?
They were split into two parts; there was a part 1 and part 2
TRUE or FALSE: The setting can be a different time period?
TRUE
Direct characterization is the author describing the character to the reader, what is indirect characterization
Author giving clues about what the character is like so the reader can make inferences about the character
What is the RISING ACTION in a story
Development of conflict in the story; what leads up to the climax
Conflict that happens between a character and another character/outside force
Which Kardashian was married to a man named Kris Humphries before marrying a Grammy Award winning artist
Kim Kardashian
It was warm, the sun was high in the sky, and the grass was greener than ever. Evan walked out his front door, there wasn't another house for miles, nothing but rolling green hills. What key words help us understand that the setting in this passage might be a field?
"the grass was greener than ever"
"nothing but rolling green hills"
"I said, 'What is that — those smells on you? All over you!' And he said, 'I don’t know,' real short, and made like he was sleeping. But he went down when he thought I wasn’t noticing, and washed and washed himself."
What does tell us about the husband in this quote
That he is hiding something
What is the RESOLUTION in the story
How the conflict was solved/resolved/figured out
How would you describe internal conflict
The conflict between a character and themselves (within a character)
Nick Cannon is famous for having a bunch of kids, how many does he have
12
Describe the setting of ONE of the short stories we watched (Bao, Hair Love, For the Birds, Lorenzo)
Bao: happens in a city but mostly in the house of a Chinese family
Hair Love: the house of a dad and his daughter; goes to see mom in the hospital
For the Birds: Day time; all the birds are on a telephone line
Lorenzo: Starts in a restaurant; rest of the short the cat is running around the city at night
What was an INFRENCE you made about a character in a story we either read or watched
Could be anything
What is the EXPOSITION of the story
Introduction to characters/setting/conflict; the set up to the story
What was the conflict in The Wife's Story (the monster story we read)
The wife suspected her husband to be lying to her; The wife didn't trust the husband; the husband was hiding something
Barbie was the biggest movie of the summer, what actress played Barbie and what actor played Ken
Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling