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LITERARY ELEMENTS FICTION
LITERARY ELEMENTS NONFICTION
PLOT
TESTIMONY & TRIAL
LITERARY ELEMENTS 12 ANGRY MEN
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This is the struggle between opposing forces in a literary work.
What is conflict?
100
This is a statement of information that can be proven as true.
What is a fact?
100
This is the high point of interest or suspense. It is usually a turning point.
What is the climax?
100
The defendant was charged with this.
What is stabbing his father to death?
100
The protagonist of the play is ____________.
What is Juror 8?
200
This occurs when what happens is the opposite of what is expected.
What is irony?
200
This is the reason an author creates a particular work.
What is the author's purpose?
200
This is the part of the plot where the conflict is introduced and problems arise.
What is the rising action?
200
This is why Juror 5 has questions about the knife wound.
What is the angle was downward, and a switchblade is not used to in a downward motion?
200
The antagonist of the play is _____________________.
Who is Juror 3?
300
This is the character or force working against the protagonist.
What is the antagonist?
300
This is how information is organized in a piece of writing.
What is the organizational pattern?
300
In this part of the plot, the characters are introduced, the setting is discussed, and the reader get background information.
What is the exposition?
300
This is what the judge says about the verdict.
What is it must be unanimous?
300
The tone of the play is _____________. A. happy B. persuasive C. ominous D. confusing
What is B, persuasive?
400
This is a suggestion, hint, or indication about something that will occur later in a literary work.
What is foreshadow or foreshadowing?
400
This is a personal thought or belief.
What is an opinion?
400
In this part of the plot, the conflict is resolved and the action ends.
What is the resolution?
400
Juror 5 knows about knives, knife fights, and knife wounds because of this.
What is he grew up in the slums and witnessed many knife fights. Also, he is a nurse so he has seen many knife wounds?
400
The theme of "standing up for what you believe in, even if you are the only one standing demonstrates ___________.
What is courage?
500
This is a characteristic of a person or character, such as honesty, cooperative, or thoughtful.
What is character trait?
500
This is the central idea in a piece of writing.
What is the main idea?
500
In this part of the plot, the story winds down and the conflict comes to an end.
What is falling action?
500
Juror 8 discredited what the old man claimed he heard by pointing out this.
What is the el train would have been too loud for him to have heard anything?
500
Two things that help understand the setting are _______.
What are play tickets, heat, el trains?