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Forms of Fiction
"The Storytelling Stone"
"La Bamba"
"The Gold Cadillac"
RANDOM
100
Stories created by ancient people to explain life, death, and nature
What are myths?
100
The form of fiction of "The Storytelling Stone"
What is a folk tale?


+100 Points for "What is a Seneca folk tale?"

100
The time when Manuel's record is scratched
What happens when Manuel's record falls on the cafeteria floor?
100
The point of view the story is told from
What is 'lois's point of view?
100
LA BAMBA: The form of fiction of "La Bamba"
What is a short story?
200
Long stories about the deeds of heroes who possess qualities valued by their cultures
What are epics?
200
The present the boy gives the rock in exchange for the story
What is a partridge?
200
How Manuel feels at the reception after the talent show
What is "he is pleased with all the attention"?
200
What happens to the family after they reach the Mississippi state line
What is "they are stopped by two policemen who proceed to lock up the narrator's father"?
200
STORYTELLING STONE: What most of the stone's stories are about
What is "the origin of things and the way the world was many years ago"?
300
Folk tales that begin with "once upon a time"
What are fairy tales?
300
The magic power the stone has

What is orenda?

300
The reason Manuel tells his father he made the record scratch on purpose
What is "Manuel wants his father to be proud of him"?
300
The main conflict that the narrator has in the story
What is "her confrontation with an unjust, racist society"?
300
THE GOLD CADILLAC: The events that occurred at the police station.
What is "the father spent 3 hours in jail because of a 'speeding ticket', but then the judge came and the father paid the fine"?
400
A folk tale OR epic with some basis in historical fact
What is a legend?
400
The old woman's dream when she lived in the sky
What is "to uproot the tree in the center of the village"?
400
The main conflict Manuel must overcome in the story
What is Manuel's stage fright?
400
The reason the family is still rich after selling the Cadillac
What is "they have love and unity"?
400
FORMS OF FICTION: Wild, exaggerated folk stories, often about legendary figures
What are tall tales?
500
The 3 types of fiction today
What are short stories, novels, and novellas?
500
The stone's full story of how the world began

What is "an old woman fell from the sky and made land on the back on a turtle"?

500
What Manuel sees when he is performing on stage
What are "his brother Mario playing with a friend", "a baby sitting in the aisle and sucking her thumb", or "some kid going to the water fountain to get a drink"? 
500
The meaning of the uncle's words:


"We might've fought a war to free people overseas, but we're not free here! Man, those white folks down south'll lynch you soon's look at you. You know that!"

What is "the men fought overseas in World War II to free other people, but Americans living in the Deep South still believe in segregation"?
500
5 different common genres
What are mystery, romance, science fiction, historical fiction, adventure, or fantasy?