Story Plot Elements
Authors use this literary device to provide readers with general background information, characters and setting.
What is the exposition
Identify Tone
What is the author's attitude towards a piece.
Character's actions, dialogue and what other characters say about them applies to...
What is:
Character Revelation
Identify the fictional element:
Tom causes the people of Boston to go bankrupt.
What is man vs. man, external conflict
Identify the errors in the following left hand header:
Mr. Smith
6/3/22
Carlos Rivera
U.S. History
What is:
Carlos Rivera
Mr. Smith
U.S. History
3 June 2022
Rising Action
What is:
The events that lead to the main conflict of the story.
Identify Mood
What is the readers feelings towards a piece
Difference between the dynamic and round character
What is:
Dynamic character is the character who undergoes a significant change. Round character is the character who is interesting and layered.
True or false:
Tom's wife represented the antagonist in "The Devil and Tom Walker".
What is:
False: Tom's wife represents the round character.
2 ways to provide in-text citations
(Must provide page number citations & paragraph number citations)
What is:
1. If author's name is not mentioned in the introduction of the quote:
Pg #: (Author's Last Name pg #)
Par. #: (Author's Last Name, par.#).
2. If author's name is mentioned in the introduction of the quote:
Pg #: (pg number).
Par.#: (par.#).
This concept is also known as the 'turning point' of the story. Provide definition.
What is:
The climax- section of the story where the main conflict reaches its most crucial point.
True or False:
The story's theme impacts the reader's mood.
What is:
False- The author's tone impacts the reader's mood.
Identify the type of conflict:
Tom reflects on his actions and regrets dealing with the devil.
What is man vs. self, internal conflict
Character that remains the same throughout the story
What is the static/flat character
Identify 'move' sentences
What is:
to allow readers to identify what the writer/speaker is doing in a given sentence, phrase or word
Everything that happens as a result of the climax.
What is the falling action
Tone Identifiers (Hint: There are 5!)
What is:
Language/ Word Choice
Images
Symbols
Similes
Metaphors
These are the six functions of setting.
What is:
Background for action, Antagonist, Reveals Characterization, Mood, Symbolism and Theme
An external conflict that places a character against the laws/ideas of the...
What is man vs. society, external conflict
Identify the rules of a work cited page
(Hint, there are 4)
Title:Work Cited or Works Cited (depending on # of sources)
Location:
-Last page of essay on a separate page
Format:
-All citations are listed in alphabetical order by last name.
-If the citation proceeds to a second line and beyond, then only the second line(+) must be indented.
True or false:
The resolution is where the author resolves the conflicts and completes the story.
What is:
False- the resolution is the ending of story. This does not mean all conflicts have been resolved.
Mood Identifiers (Hint: There are 6)
What is:
Character's Behavior (feelings/reactions)
Setting
Description of Events
Author's Tone
Emotion words
Music/Background Noise
Identify what the author is doing in the passage below:
Taken from “The Day the Sun Came Out” by D. Johnson
At first there were four of us with one horse wagon and its skimpy load. Pa and I walked, because I was a big boy of eleven. My two little sisters romped and trotted until they got tired and had to be boosted up to the wagon bed. That was no covered Conestoga, like Pa’s folks came West in, but just an old farm wagon, drawn by one weary horse, creaking and rumbling westward to the mountains, toward the little woods town where Pa thought he had an old uncle who owned a little two-bit sawmill.
What is:
Details authors use to describe setting:
Scenery
Customs
Transportation
Clothing
Dialects (accents)
Furniture
Weather
What is theme and how do readers identify it?
Lesson/moral of a literary work
Written as a sentence NOT a word
Requires readers to make an inference
Justified through specific evidence
Relatable to the real world
Identify the types of poems we discussed in class
(Hint, there are 5)
Bonus +100pts: If you can define ALL 5!
1. Bio Poem: A simple poem written about a specific person.
2. Haiku Poem: A Japanese form of poetry, consisting of three lines of five, seven, and five syllables
3. Acrostic Poem: A poem where the first letter of each line spells a word that can be read vertically down.
4. Narrative Poem: A poem that tells a story and is longer due to establishing characters and a plot
5. Lyric Poem: A short poem that expresses an emotion, idea or scene; often musical.