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Figurative Language
Everyone Has Conflicts
All About That PLOT
Characters
Out of the Dust
100
My beautiful baby boy believes in Barney!
What is alliteration? (Repeated consonant sounds)
100

Before driving to school this morning, Mrs. Tucker's key wouldn't lock the front door.

What is Man VS Machine?

100
This is the name of the end of a story/plot line.
What is the resolution/denoument?
100

What is a protagonist?

The main character.

100

The main setting of OOTD is: 1.) Texas 2.) Oklahoma 3.) California

What is Oklahoma?

200
The new kindergartner acted like a scared kitten.
What is a simile? (comparison between two things using like/as)
200
The victims of the terrible tsunami are still trying to recover and rebuild their homes.
What is Man VS Nature?
200
This piece of the plot line includes all the events that lead up to the climax.
What is rising action?
200

Who was the main character in the story "Seventh Grade"?

Who is Victor?

200

What type of figurative language is represented in the following example: “I tell him he is like the sod, / and I am like the wheat, / and I can’t grow everywhere, / but I can grow here.”

a.) Simile b.) Personification c.) Metaphor

d.) Onomatopoeia

Simile

300
BAM! WHIZZ! The crack of the ball against the bat made everyone jump to their feet with pumping adrenaline.
What is an onomatopoeia? (words that sound the way they are spelled)
300
At Mica Area High School, the students began shunning Leo after he started dating Stargirl.
What is Man VS Society?
300
This is the piece of the story/plot line that includes all events after the climax has taken place.
What is falling action?
300

What is an Antagonist?

A person or force working against the main character.

300

The President of the United States during this time period was __________.

A. John F. Kennedy

B. Franklin D. Roosevelt

C. Woodrow Wilson

D. Teddy Roosevelt

B. Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)

400
After Annie studied for 3 hours, her pencil danced across her math test the next day with no anxiety or confusion.
What is a personification? (giving human characteristics to something that is not human)
400
Hillari Kimble slapped Stargirl Caraway at the end of the Ocotillo Ball.
What is Man VS Man?
400
This part of the story/plot line is when all the BIG and EXCITING stuff is happening. It is also seen as the top of the roller coaster.
What is the climax?
400

Who/What is the antagonist in "Covered with Nails"?

The nails

400

Which part of the plot did the following event occur:

Billie Jo decides to return home and forgive Pa. 

Resolution

500
Her voice was music to his ears.
What is a metaphor? (comparing two things NOT using like/as)
500
A character keeps applying to his favorite college, but it seems he can never get accepted.
What is Man VS Fate/Destiny/God?
500
These three things are included in the Exposition.
What is setting, characters, problem?
500

Is a narrator a character in a story?

No. NEVER.

500

What happens soon after the grasshoppers destroy the apples on the trees?

A. Ma dies

B. The migrant family moves into the school.

C. The letter from Aunt Ellis arrives.

D. Billie leaves the dust behind and heads west.

A. Ma dies