Story Fundamentals
Everybody has a story to tell, and this is the person who tells the story inside of a piece of fiction.
What is a narrator?
The creations and development of characters.
What is characterization?
A turning point in a story, often providing the high point of interest for the reader.
What is the climax?
Often referred to as the message of a story.
What is the theme?
An educated guess. In science, these are commonly known as a hypothesis.
What is an inference?
In "Button, Button" by Richard Matheson, Norma Lewis is an example of this story role.
What is a protagonist?
"Miss Cruise is fabulous" is an example of this characterization type.
What is direct characterization?
Explanation of the story's important characters and setting is a hallmark of this piece of plot.
What is exposition?
"An article about how online shopping is hurting the retail industry," is a sentence example of this nonfiction term.
What is central idea?
Scared, sad, and reflective are all examples of this term.
What is mood?
Task Question: With your team, write on the provided whiteboard an example of your current setting.
(Answers may vary; needs both place and time)
In "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs, Mr. White goes from a risky and impulsive character to a more reserved and careful character. This makes him an example of this type of character.
What is a dynamic character?
Lizabeth stepping out from behind the bush line and starting to mock Miss Lottie is an example of this element of plot.
What is rising action?
Accidently hitting a student in the nose with a pack of Sour Patch Kids is an example of this external conflict type.
What is person vs. person (might also accept person vs. nature)?
This narrator type knows what everyone in a story thinks and feels.
What is an omniscient narrator?
An exchange or conversation between characters.
What is dialogue?
Task Question: With your team, write on your whiteboard a motivation someone might have for coming to school.
(Answers may vary, needs to be a reason why someone might come to school)
Putting the different aspects of plot together create this literary term.
What is an objective summary?
The title of The Clash's 1982 song "Should I Stay or Should I Go" is an example of this.
What is internal conflict?
Task Question: With your team, write on your whiteboard something that might foreshadow what you get for a birthday.
(Answers may vary, needs to be a clue or hint of what someone might receive)
The antagonist in "Into the Woods" is this.
Who is Jack?
Name a static character from one of the stories we have read during this unit.
Who is Rachel, Mrs. Price, Mme. Forestier, Sergeant-Major Morris, Joey, or John Burke?
Task Question: With your team, write on your whiteboard the different components of the plot chart in order.
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution?
Task Question: With your team, write on your whiteboard an objective summary of "Marigolds" by Eugenia Collier.
(Answers may vary, needs to have no inclusion of opinion)
No two people have the same for this literary term.
What is perspective?