types of conflict
Identify the type of conflict based on the passage details:
Heather's school has a great basketball team for boys. When she and some of the other female students want to start a girls' team, the school board says there isn't enough money.
what is man vs. society
This type of characterization tells rather than shows what the personality of the character is
what is direct characterization
In this POV the narrator uses “I”
What is first person
Is the inciting incident is a part of the end of the story
No, the inciting incident is the moment of conflict that begins the rising action of the story
Identify the figurative language device in the following sentence:
Life is like a box of chocolates.
What is a simile
Identify the type of conflict based on the passage details:
Beowulf travels to help King Hrothgar and finds out if he can fulfill his duty to Hrothgar's family and throne because of the strength he has been granted in life. These acts then dictate his hero status upon return home.
What is man vs. fate
"The patient girl and the quiet boy were both well mannered" is an example of this type of this form of characterization.
What is direct characterization
This POV has a narrator that knows everything about every character and can take the reader into any of the character’s lives at any point in the story
What is 3rd person omniscient
where a story takes place
What is setting--this detail would be introduced in the exposition of the story
Identify the figurative language device in the following sentence:
“Hope is a thing with feathers perched upon the soul…”
What is a metaphor
Identify the type of conflict based on the passage details:
In Stephen Crane's short story, "The Open Boat", four men are stranded in a rowboat in the ocean after their ship sinks.
What is man vs. nature
What do we call the main character in a story
what is the protagonist
In this POV the narrator addresses "you" and speaks directly "you"
what is 2nd person
what is the climax of a story?
what is... the highest point of tension in the story where the main problems of the story are confronted or where there is a turning point and the world of the story, or a particular character, is now different from what was presented in the exposition.
When the audience knows something that the characters do not know.
What is dramatic irony
Identify the type of conflict based on the passage details:
In the movie Rocky, Rocky Balboa, also known as the Italian Stallion, trains to fight Apollo Creed. Creed is the reigning champion and Rocky is the underdog.
what is man vs. man
This type of character undergoes an important change over the course of the story
What is a dynamic character
Beowulf is written in this POV
3rd person omniscient
True or False: the resolution is the end of the story where the main conflict is resolved
what literary device is characterized by descriptive language that appeals to the reader's sense of smell?
what is olfactory imagery
Identify the type of conflict based on the passage details:
Lamar wants to join the football team, but he is scared he will break an arm or a leg. He has to face his fears and gain some confidence to try out to be on the team.
what is man vs. self
The person or force opposing the protagonist
what is the antagonist
This POV is characterized by the narrator limiting the reader to the experiences and insights of one character. The way in which the reader meets a new character in the text is to have him or her meet the protagonist who the narrator has focused in on.
what is:
exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
This literary device occurs when the author makes a cultural, historical, or literary reference within their own work such as the references to Siegmund the Dragon slayer in Beowulf
What is an allusion