Basic Narrative Structure
Fancy Narrative Structure
Upon Seeing an Orange
What's Going On In this Passage?
Absolutely Random
100

Characters, setting, and conflict

What is exposition?

100

Cinderella does the work in the story; therefore, she represents the working class. 

What is a Marxist lens. 

100

What possibilities are available to a woman who eats this orange?

What is a feminist lens

100

"They're made out of meat."

 "Meat?"

"Meat. They're made out of meat."

  "Meat?"

(Narrative technique) 

What is dialogue? 

100

What percentage of 9th grade core-teachers have lived overseas? 

What is 75%
200

Dialogue, Pacing, and reflection

What is narrative technique?

200
When Little Red, a girl, does not listen to the wisdom of her mother, she falls victim to a predatory, masculine figure. 

What is a feminist lens?

200

“Who owns the orange?”

                 “Who gets to eat it?”

What is Marxist?

200

In a forest, a man stood one winter night watching and listening, as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come within the range of his vision, and, later, of his rifle.

This establishes the exposition. 

200

This language has the most distinct words. 

What is English?

300

traditional, in media res, flashback, flashforward 

What is sequencing technique? 

300

It is possible to read The Big Bag Wolf as allegorical representation of King Louis IVX. 

What is New Historicism? 

300

 “Where was this orange grown?”
                “Who was the farmer in charge of growing this orange?  What can we learn about him or her that might help us understand this orange better?”

What is New Historicism? 

300

START OF THE STORY:
They search for things: Harry and William meghan and kate Meghan and Kate feud N.F.C. playoff picture 


END OF THE STORY: 

They ask themselves: Harry and Meghan what now. Harry and Meghan what next. 


What is circular ending? 

300

A graffiti artist famous for shredding his own multi-million dollar piece.

Who is Banksy? 

400

Moral, twist, cliffhanger, circular

What is closing technique? 

400

The Wolf, a representation of chaos, consumes Little Red, after she sheds her cloak --the tool she uses to give herself a sense of identity. 

What is existentialism?

400

 “Is the sole function of this orange to be eaten?”


What is existentialism? 

400

 He did not remember deliberately crashing his father's car in to a tree, of having his ribs kicked in by three policemen at an anti-war rally, or waking himself up with laughter. He did not remember when he began to regard the heap of books on his desk with boredom and dread, or when he grew angry at writers for writing them. He did not remember when everything began to remind him of something else.


This is what he remembered. Heat. A baseball field. 


What is pacing? 

400

If "culpa" means "blame," this is the definition of "culpable." 

What is worthy of blame? 

500
Literally, Greek for "God of the Machines" --> the conclusion technique when a character wakes up and it's all been a dream/imagined

What is deus ex machina?

500

The opposite of the proletariat.

What is the bourgeoises? 

500

               “If the orange is not eaten, did it succeed not being an orange?”

What is existentialism? 

500

Using an existential lens, the path in little Red Riding Hood might be seen as a representation of man's attempt to create ____, whereas the forest is a representation of nature's tendency to create_____. 

What are order and chaos? 

500

Who was the last czar of Russia?

Czar Nicholas II