Plot 1
The struggle the main character faces.
What is conflict?
The type of conflict that involves another character, nature, or society.
What is external conflict?
What is direct characterization?
What does
L^3
stand for?
What is "life lesson learned?"
The type of irony in the following example:
Ashley is six feet tall. She will only date guys who are 6’3” and above. One night, she saw a guy who was less than 5 feet tall. She said, “Yeah, he definitely meets my height requirement.”
What is verbal?
The parts of exposition. (Name at least two!)
What are characters, setting, and background/background knowledge?
The important series of events in the story that lead up to a turning point.
What is rising action?
What is indirect characterization?
Another way of defining theme other than
L^3.
What is the message or the moral of the story?
The type of irony found in this example:
Cinderella, a penniless house slave to her step-mother and two step-sisters, goes to a ball held for the prince. The prince believes that Cinderella is a royal lady since she is at the ball and is so beautiful. He falls in love with her not knowing that she is a maid in her step-mother’s house.
What is the dramatic?
You can create this using a flashback to other parts of a character's life, which can help you to learn more of their background.
What is exposition?
These three types of conflict deals with an external source creating conflict for the main character. (Name at least one!)
What are character vs. character, character vs. nature, and character vs. society?
This is what you use from a story to prove your conclusion about the character, which is an important part of indirect characterization.
What is evidence?
Theme should be written as this instead of a topic or a single idea.
What is a statement?
The type of irony that creates suspense or tension because of the fact you know more than a character or the characters in the story.
What is dramatic?
This type of development of plot starts to "wrap up" the main conflict and any other conflicts toward resolution.
What is falling action?
The end of the story, where the main conflict is "solved" or ends, because sometimes the main character loses.
What is the resolution?
Indirect or direct?
"Ivan is an incredibly strong fellow," remarked the general, "but he has the misfortune to be deaf and dumb. A simple fellow, but, I’m afraid, like all his race, a bit of a savage."
What is direct?
These two things should NOT be included in a theme statement. (Must get both!)
What are characters or events?
The type of irony in the following example:
Axel was the toughest kid on the playground. He wore a leather jacket with cutoff sleeves and metal studs on the shoulders. He whooped on anyone who challenged him, but after a long day of being really tough, Axel’s mommy tucked him into bed at night and he snuggled up tightly with a fluffy pink bear that he called Mr. Tickles.
What is situational?
Something about a character that makes up an internal conflict. (Name at least one!)
The "point of no return" of a story, where the main character experiences a lot of tension or makes a decision about the main conflict they cant go back from.
What is the climax?
Indirect or direct?
“I like this one too,” whispered my mother, coming up alongside me at a smallish and particularly haunting still life […] “They really knew how to work this edge, the Dutch painters – ripeness sliding into rot. The fruit’s perfect but it won’t last, it’s about to go. And see here especially,” she said, reaching over my shoulder to trace the air with her finger, “this passage – the butterfly.”
What is indirect?
This is why this is an incorrect theme for "Sweat:"
"When confronted with someone who is trying to run you out of your home, you shouldn't give in."
What is because it include details relating to events from "Sweat?"
The type of irony in the following example:
When this movie opens, we see a town and the setting appears to be early-Colonial America (i.e. the Puritans). The town is attacked regularly by creepy rat-like monsters in red cloaks. One of the members of the town falls very ill, and they need to send someone to another town for medical supplies. They choose to send a blind girl in the town, who leaves on her journey, having to run from the monsters. When she reaches the main road, a truck picks her up and we realize that the setting is not early-American but present day!
What is situational?