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Plot Triangle
Types of Conflict
Vocabulary
Parts of a Story
Misc.
100
The main problem in the story.
What is conflict?
100
A woman wants a better education for her child so she goes before the school board.
What is Man vs. Society?
100
A true account of a person's life, written by another person.
What is biography?
100
The writer gives hints as to what will happen in the future.
What is foreshadow?
100
Qualities shown by a character.
What are character traits?
200
The turning point.
What is climax?
200
The town is alerted of a giant tsumani and they start to build a wall to keep the water out.
What is Man vs. Nature?
200
A message about life or human nature.
What is theme?
200
Written from a character in the story; uses I, me, my.
What is first person point of view?
200
The voice that tells the story.
What is narrator?
300
The end of the story.
What is resolution?
300
A lab experiment gone wrong has caused a lizard to grow to 5 times it's normal size and it attacks everything in it's path.
What is Man vs. Man?
300
Information you gather by reading the text and combining your background knowledge.
What is inference/inferring?
300
The ability to see what's going on by the words used.
What is visualize?
300
Not the main title, but the title for smaller sections
What is subheading/subtitle?
400
Where the story takes place.
What is setting?
400
You've just learned that your dad's side of the family is a different religion and they are urging you to believe what they believe.
What is Man vs. Self
400
The basic idea of a passage.
What is main idea?
400
The order in which a story takes place.
What is sequence of events?
400
A character who struggles against a force outside him or herself.
What is external conflict?
500
All of the events leading to the climax.
What is rising action?
500
A pack of rabid wolves are walking the streets of a neighborhood and the local law enforcement are having a hard time getting rid of them.
What is Man vs. Man
500
A writer's account of his or her own life.
What is autobiography?
500
An interruption of the action to present events that took place at an earlier time.
What is flashback?
500
A struggle that occurs within a character.
What is internal conflict?