Conflict
A type of conflict within a story where there is a struggle between a character and an outside force. Examples include character vs. character, character vs. nature and character vs. society.
What is an external conflict?
What is a metaphor?
A narrative point of view that focuses on the story from the perspective of one character, the narrator is a voice outside of the story and uses pronouns such as: he, she, they and them.
What is 3rd Person Limited point of view?
An insight about life that is conveyed through the story details. The moral or message of a story.
What is theme?
The writer's attitude toward their subject and audience.
What is tone?
What is an internal conflict?
A type of figurative language that compares seemingly unlike things and uses "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
A narrative point of view that focuses on the story from the perspective of multiple characters, the narrator is an all knowing observer and uses pronouns such as: he, she, they and them.
What is 3rd Person Omniscient point of view?
In a story when the theme is stated directly by the story's narrator or a character.
What is explicit theme?
When a writer includes language which appeals to the five senses (touch, taste, smell, sight, touch) to create the tone of a story.
What is sensory language?
A story we read in this unit in which elements of the setting (a hurricane) create a major external conflict for the narrator.
What is "The Banana Tree"?
A figure of speech that uses exaggeration for effect. Examples may include: "I was dying of laughter" and "I've told you a million times".
What is a hyperbole?
A narrative point of view that focuses on the story from the perspective of the protagonist. The reader sees the story from the narrator's perspective. This narrator pronouns such as: I, me, my, and mine
What is 1st Person point of view?
When the theme of a story is suggested by the story's details including characters, plot events, conflict and setting.
What is an implicit theme?
What is verbal irony?
Read the following passage from "La Princesa Mileidy Dominguez" and identify the type of conflict in the passage:
"'Are you okay, Leidy?'
'Yeah, I'm okay. I was just remembering my own quinceanera.'
Brittney smiles because she doesn't get what I'm saying. She thinks I'm talking about a dance, the dress, the presentation...[she] can't even imagine because because the way her pants are intentionally ripped and those expensive glasses, she probably got all of those things."
What is an internal conflict?
An example of which kind of figurative language is used in the poem "Ode to Teachers" in the example below:
"...The steady blessings of stars"
What is personification?
A narrative point of view that focuses on the story from the perspective of the reader or as an internal monologue, the narrator uses pronouns such as: you and your.
What is 2nd person point of view?
An example of this kind of theme is clear in the story "The North Wind and the Sun" when the character says "...there is great power in gentleness" and "Through gentleness I got my way"
What is explicit theme?
What is an idiom?
The type of figurative language in the passage from "The Winter Hibiscus" below:
“‘It’s not a real one,’ Saeng mumbled. ‘I mean, not like the kind we had at–at–’ She found that she was still too shaky to say the words at home, lest she burst into tears again. ‘Not like the kind we had before,’ she said.
‘I know,’ her mother said quietly. ‘I’ve seen this kind blooming along the lake. It’s flowers aren’t as pretty, but it’s strong enough to make it through the cold months here, this winter hibiscus. That’s what matters.’” (14).
What is a metaphor?
In the story "First-Day-Fly" this type of theme can be interpreted when the reader considers what the character learned from his mother (how to iron and steam his clothing) and that his brother gives his favorite jeans to him and concludes that one theme might be that "our clothing is a reflection of our family values".
What is implicit theme?
The tone of the following passage from "The Winter Hibiscus" can best be described as...
“For a moment Saeng stood on the doorstep and watched the swirl of autumn leaves in the afternoon sunlight, thinking of the bleak winter ahead. She had lived through enough of them now to dread their grayness and silence and endless bone-chilling cold."
What is sad, lonely, dark, bleak or moody