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"My Favorite Chaperone"
Literary Terms
Literary Terms
Vocabulary
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What is the MAIN conflict in the story?
Maya needs permission to go to a school dance.
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What three things are revealed in the exposition of a story?
background, characters, setting
100
What is the top part of this diagram called? ___/\___
climax
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What does stun mean?
to shock someone
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Why is Maya upset when she is first called to the office?
She thinks that she is in trouble.
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What is completely resolved (solved) in the resolution of a story?
conflict
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What is the end part of this diagram called? ___/\___
Resolution
200
What does scuffle mean?
a fight
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Why do Maya’s parents have stricter rules than her friends’ parents?
They are from a country with different customs.
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What should a summary of a literary text include?
The major plot events, conflict, climax, resolution, along with the title, author, and main characters.
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What is the left slope of this diagram called? ___/\___
rising action
300
What is a whimper?
a soft cry
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How does Nurzhan help to resolve the story’s conflict?
He gets their parents to sign the slip by offering to be Maya’s chaperone.
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What kind of diagram is this? __/\___
A Plot Diagram
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What is the right slope of this diagram called? ___/\___
falling action
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What is the job of a dispatcher?
to send out vehicles according to a schedule
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What does Mama do to show that she understands that growing up in America will be different for Maya?
She gives Maya a special bracelet to wear to the dance.
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What is the first part of the diagram called? ___/\___
Expostition
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What belongs in the middle or center of this diagram? ___/\___
conflict
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What does sponsor mean?
to support someone’s admission into a group