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PLOT
CHARACTER
LIT TERMS 1
LIT TERMS 2
LIT TERMS 3
100
In the five part plot structure, the ______________ introduces the reader to the characters and their conflicts.
What is exposition?
100
Antagonist in “MDG”
Who is General Zaroff?
100
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
What is alliteration?
100
“Her lips were like wine.”
What is simile?
100
The ____________ of “MDG” is Ship-Trap Island.
What is setting?
200
5 parts of plot structure IN ORDER
What is 1) Exposition 2) Rising action 3) Climax 4) Falling action 5) Resolution
200
Ivan can be described as a ____________ and static character.
What is flat?
200
Romeo sees Juliet and says, “Juliet is the sun.”
What is metaphor?
200
Man vs Man is what kind of conflict?
What is external?
200
The message or central idea of a literary work
What is theme?
300
Plot structure: Rainsford confronts Zaroff in in his bedroom.
What is climax?
300
General Zaroff hunts men because he is bored with hunting animals. This reason is also called his ___________.
What is motive?
300
“It’s raining cats and dogs.”
What is idiom?
300
"I'm STARVING to death!" (but the speaker ate 6 hours earlier)
What is hyperbole?
300
"The shy, quiet girl" would be an example of ___________________ characterization.
What is direct?
400
"He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided."
What is resolution/denouement?
400
"Rainsford knew now how an animal at bay feels." This CHANGE in Rainsford's view of suffering proves that Rainsford is a ______________ character?
What is dynamic?
400
The strict dictionary meaning of a word
What is denotation?
400
The cultural association of a word
What is connotation?
400
The message or theme of a work of nonfiction
What is central idea?
500
The rising action of "MDG" begins when . . .
What is General Zaroff hunts Rainsford?
500
The contrast between General Zaroff's excessively polite manner and his brutal hunting of men is A. dynamic B. ironic C. idiomatic D. direct characterizationic ;)
What is B?
500
"But the sharp eyes of the hunter stopped before they reached the limb where Rainsford lay; a smile spread over his brown face, Very deliberately he blew a smoke ring into the air; then he turned his back on the tree and walked carelessly away, back along the trail he had come." The reader can make an educated guess that Zaroff knows Rainsford is in the tree. We call this educated guess a(n)_____________.
What is inference?
500
Rainsford says to himself: "Nerve, nerve, nerve!" he panted, as he dashed along. This line illustrates a(n)_____________ conflict.
What is internal?
500
General Zaroff: "I have electricity. We try to be civilized here." (but Zaroff hunts and kills men)
What is irony?