Plot
The turning point of the story.
What is the climax?
Language that is not literal, where you must work to figure out the true meaning of the idea.
What is figurative language?
A person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
A protagonist.
What is the main character of a story called?
Mr. Higgins' 1st name.
What is Tyler?
The stage that introduces us to the protagonist and their "normal" life.
What is the exposition?
Language where every word is being used exactly as defined.
What is literal language?
The simple description of what an adverb is.
What is "a word that describes a verb?"
A conflict (in ELA).
What is a struggle that a character faces?
Mr. Higgins' Halloween costume from last year.
What is a YONDR pouch?
The stage where something unexpected or unusual occurs that disrupts the protagonist's "normal" life.
What is the Inciting Incident?
What "Pop!" is an example of.
What is onomatopoeia?
A description of events and people that the writer or speaker has made up. (Fiction!)
What is a story?
1. The definition of physical traits.
2. The definition of personality traits.
1. What are traits that refer to how a character looks, smells, and other characteristics one senses from "the outside?"
2. What are traits that refer to how a character acts, behaves, thinks, feels, and other characteristics though of as "inside" traits?
1. The city where Mr. Higgins grew up.
~OR~
2. The name of Mr. Higgins' husband's bookstore.
(Choose one to answer, or answer both correctly for double points!)
1. What is Chicago?
2. What is The Mysterious Bookshop?
The six stages of the plot diagram in order from 1st to last.
What are the exposition, the inciting incident, the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution?
What "Goblina goes crazy when she picks her nose, she shoves her whole hand up there!" is an example of.
What is hyperbole?
The difference in meaning between the words "sympathy" and "empathy."
What is "While sympathy means showing kindness to someone who you can tell is hurting, empathy refers to being able to imagine what someone else is going through?"
A well explained example of a person vs. society type conflict.
[Answers may vary]
Mr. Higgins' astrological sign.
What is Taurus?
The term, of French origin, that is used interchangeably with "Falling Action."
What is denouement?
The correct spelling of the type of figurative language where a word "makes" a sound.
What is O-N-O-M-A-T-O-P-O-E-I-A?
At least 5 State of Being verbs.
What are "Is, Am, Are, Was, Were, Be, Being, Been?"
A description of when you should underline a title vs. when you should put it in quotation marks.
What is "If it is a smaller item, like a short story, an episode of television, or an article, you put the title in quotations; however if it is a larger item, like a book, a TV series, or a newspaper, you underline the title."
The names of Mr. Higgins' cats.
What are Betty and August?