Plot
Characterization
Irony
Conflict
Short Stories
100
The sequence of events in a story
What is plot?
100
That girl is so shy!
What is direct characterization?
100
When the audience/characters/or both are surprised by an event in the story
What is situational irony?
100
Example: Brother and Doodle
What is character vs. character
100
This story is set in Paris, France
What is "The Necklace"?
200
the tying up of the loose ends; how the story arc ends; the solution to the conflict
What is the resolution?
200
STEAL - what a character says and thinks; effect on others; how a character acts; and a character's physical appearance
What are different ways to determine indirect characterization?
200
When the reader knows something that a character or characters do not know
What is dramatic irony?
200
A character in the story struggles against the blazing hot temperatures of the desert
What is character vs. nature?
200
Word that best describes the mood at the end of The Interlopers
What is grim/gloomy/depressing?
300
the turning point; the event that changes how the story ends
What is the climax?
300
Example: The young man shared his lunch with a homeless man.
What is indirect characterization?
300
Example of irony in "The Interlopers"
What is the two men had expected to fight each other. Instead, the two men are pinned by a huge tree that falls on them both. -OR- The two men get their wish, but not the way they expected it.
300
Give an example of character vs. character in "The Interlopers"
What is: Ulrich wants to kill Georg; the two men want something bad to happen to the other one
300
Conclusion a reader can draw about Madame Loisel’s character based on the life she wants to live
What is She is more interested in expensive possessions than in her husband; she is materialistic; she cares most about having things
400
the background for the story; the events leading to the current action
What is exposition?
400
character whose actions drive the plot
What is protagonist?
400
Irony of Zaroff saying, "We do our best to preserve the amenities of civilization here."
What is: Civilized men do not hunt other humans for sport.
400
In "The Most Dangerous Game," character who experiences person vs. society conflict
Who is Zaroff? Who is the General?
400
In The Interlopers, the inference the reader can make about Ulrich at the beginning of the story
What is He is angry and hopes to find his enemy; he wants to kill Georg; Ulrich is tired of Georg poaching on his land.
500
the event or decision that begins a story's conflict
What is the inciting event (or inciting incident)?
500
Define direct characterization.
What is information that the author TELLS the reader about a character; we don't have to use clues.
500
All verbal irony is sarcasm
What is false?
500
Define conflict.
What is the struggle between opposing forces of any kind?
500
The story set during World War I in North Carolina
What is "The Scarlet Ibis"?