What's the Word
The final part of a story in which the strands of the plot are drawn together. Matters are explained or resolved, and characters meet their fates.
What is the resolution?
"Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan makes great use of this storytelling device:
What are flashbacks?
When Tessie ‘wins’ the lottery, Shirley Jackson’s story reaches its ______________.
What is the climax?
Identify the tone of the following line and give me a reason for your response:
The groms press forward, inching eagerly toward the arena entrance.
Sample answers:
Excited, anticipatory, hopeful, gleeful, joyful.
Rainbows are created by:
When sunlight hits a rain droplet, some of the light is reflected. The electromagnetic spectrum is made of light with many different wavelengths, and each is reflected at a different angle. Thus, spectrum is separated, producing a rainbow.
A brief, descriptive part, scene, or episode of a larger story, sometimes described from the storyteller's memory or experience, and sometimes imagined.
What is a vignette?
This form of writing includes short, descriptive stories.
What are vignettes?
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Flashbacks are often used in this type of narration.
What is episodic narration?
Replace the italicized words in this sentence to make it admiring:
(…) the youth dwelled in a world that was, we now realize, pitifully dull.
Sample Answers:
Shockingly cool, amazingly neat, wondrously fun.
This all-time top grossing film includes an alien planet, where a precious material is mined, to the detriment of the natives.
What is Avatar?
A narrative that presents a story in which the narrative and its elements are intended to make a clear point or argument, sometimes explicitly stated but often implicitly suggested by the narrative's events, characters, and resolution. Tells the story from the first-person point of view to make a specific point.
What is a narrative essay?
Hampton Sides's "The Birdman Drops In" makes use of this type of chronology:
This author's work is partly fiction, partly real-life reinterpreted (both hers and others).
Who is Sandra Cisneros?
Identify the tone of the following line and give me a reason for your response:
I am fascinated by language in daily life.
Sample answers:
Curious, amazed, enjoying
DAILY DOUBLE:
Name 3 movies based off of books.
Sample Answers:
Die Hard
Divergent
Clueless
A form of filmmaking that represents people and events in ways intended to present their stories through photographs, video footage, interviews, and narrative commentary; contemporary documentaries increasingly use the elements and devices of narration to tell their stories artfully.
What is a documentary?
DAILY DOUBLE:
Give me a short definition of each type of narration we discussed.
Omniscient - See into thoughts
First Person - Uses I, me pronouns. The narrator is a character.
Third Person - uses third person pronouns. The narrator is NOT a character.
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What is an example of episodic narration in our readings? (Name one story that utilizes it)
The House on Mango Street
"Mother Tongue"
Dreams of My Father
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Change the words in the following to make the tone shift from hate to love:
He hated the rules, the funny pants, the yelling parents, the peer pressure.
Sample Answer:
He adored the rules, the pristine pants, the applauding parents, the friendly competition.
What are a Litter or Kindle?
An episode in a story in which the events or character's thoughts move backward to a previous point in time. The purpose of a _____________ can be to clarify or to confuse. It can fill in details, further develop the character, reveal motivations, introduce conflicts, or complicate the narrative structure.
What is a flashback?
A personal narrative often takes the form of an entry from a _____________ or _____________.
What are a journal or diary?
Mark Twain is known to write these short, humorous pieces of writing, which share a name with the comedic segments of SNL.
What are sketches?
Change the tone from intense to bored:
(…) half the nation passionately believed that in silver lay salvation, the other half believed that in that way lay destruction.
Sample response:
(…) half the nation passively believed that in silver lay some worth, the other half sighed that in that way lay nothing.
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was part of which war?
What is the Cold War?