Elements of a Story
This is when and where the story takes place.
What is the Setting?
This orphan boy is the main character of A Single Shard.
Who is Tree Ear?
This young roman is the main character of Lantern Bearers.
Who is Aquila?
This is the name of the main character.
Who is Wolf?
The book opens with the family traveling to this city in Italy.
What is Rome?
This is the sequence of all events in a story.
What is the Plot?
This man raised Tree Ear under a bridge.
Who is Crane Man?
This island is the setting of Lantern Bearers.
What is England?
This is the girl who befriends Wolf in Britain. She will eventually become his wife.
Who is Fritha?
Who is Gobbo?
This is the problem which drives the plot of a story found toward its conclusion.
What is the Conflict?
This potter agreed to teach Tree Ear.
Who is Min?
After returning to England, Aquila joins this man in fighting the Saxons.
Who is Ambrosius?
Wolf and his father travel with this missionary to Britain.
Who is St. Augustine of Kent?
Charlemagne is crowned on this feast day.
What is Christmas?
This is one large event that changes the outcome of the entire story.
What is the Climax?
In the book, Tree Ear is sent by Min to this person of royal status. (Title)
Who is the emperor?
After his house is burned, Aquila was taken to this region.
What is Juteland?
This is the name of the kingdom in Britain where they went.
What is Kent?
This wife of Charlemagne is very disliked by the court.
Who is Fastrada?
This is the introduction of a story, where the author presents his characters in their setting and hints at the central conflict that will drive the story forward.
What is the Exposition?
After the death of Crane Man, Min and his wife did this to Tree Ear.
What is adoption?
To form an alliance, Aquila marries his redheaded daughter who shares the same name with the leading female character in Beorn the Proud.
Who is Ness?
They are the king and queen of Kent.
Who are King Ethelbert and Queen Bertha?
Along with Carl these two sons also receive kingdoms from Charlemagne.
Who are Pepin and Louis?