Show:
The Kid Nobody Could Handle
Lamb to the Slaughter
The Rules of the Game
Bits and Pieces
Plot, Conflict, and Character
100
An important character with important shoes.
Who is Jim?
100
The name of our murdering main character.
Who is Mary Maloney.
100
A street near her house that the main character is named after and part of the name of a popular TV show with Selena Gomez.
What is Waverly?
100
Where or when a story takes place.
What is the setting?
100
This is the highest point of action during the story.
What is the climax?
200
This man catches the bad boy vandalizing the science department.
Who is Helmholtz?
200
He is our author and the writer of many other lovely children's books like James and the Giant Peach.
Who is Roald Dahl?
200
This two syllable name Meimei also means "little sister."
What is Waverly's Chinese name?
200
The author's underlying message to a story.
What is the theme?
200
When the author wraps everything up for a reader.
What is resolution?
300
The restaurant owner who bought the lot behind the diner for a small amount of money only to turn it around for a huge profit.
Who is Quinn?
300
When our main character asks police to eat the lamb, which is the murder weapon, it's an example of...
What is dramatic irony?
300
According to the main character's mother, these people are lazy.
Who are Americans?
300
When a reader knows something that characters within the story do not.
What is dramatic irony?
300
When a character struggles with a force outside of himself or herself.
What is external conflict?
400
To lead the finest band on the face of the earth.
What is Helmholtz's dream?
400
When our main character viciously murders her husband. (Element of a short story)
What is the main conflict?
400
This man, teachers our main character how to play chess, and ends up infuriating her other.
Who is Vincent Jong?
400
When something (a phrase, gesture, or object) represent something else entirely.
What is a symbol?
400
The main character of the story is often this.
What is the protagonist?
500
Helmholtz fighting against Jim to be a better person. (Element of a short story)
What is the main conflict?
500
Sam, the grocer, is used to create this for our main character after the murder.
What is an alibi?
500
The point during the plot when our main character becomes a National chess champion.
What is the climax.
500
When an event in a story is the opposite of what the reader expected to happen.
What is situational irony?
500
When an author shows you who a character is by their actions, thoughts, and speech.
What is indirect characterization?