Plot
The stories we read focusing on plot
What are "The Most Dangerous Game" and "The Lottery"?
The story we read focusing on character
What is Apollo?
The story we read focusing on language
What is All Summer in a Day?
The story we read focusing on Cultural POV
What is "Jesus Shaves"?
The story we read focusing on theme
What is "The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket"?
A state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen
What is suspense?
True/false: The antagonist is always the villian of the story.
What is false?
The author's use of description and vivid language to appeal to the reader’s five senses.
What is imagery?
The culture of the author of "Jesus Shaves."
What is American?
A significant idea/statement that the story is making about society, human nature, or the human condition
What is theme?
The use of clues to suggest what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
Who is Okenwa?
Words or phrases that are meant to mean something beyond what is usually literally meant by those words.
What is figurative language?
The cultures represented by the students in "Jesus Shaves."
What are Moroccan, Polish, and Italian?
The story whose theme statement is: Tradition that goes unquestioned can be dangerous.
What is The Lottery?
What is the climax?
Example of this kind of characterization:
"They had a new, simple sense of wonder."
What is direct characterization?
I think the sun is a flower, that blooms for just one hour.
What is metaphor?
The culture of the author of "A Grasshopper and a Bell Cricket."
What is Japanese?
The story whose theme statement could be: Sometimes, we mistake ordinary things for being special, and we don’t realize how important simple moments or things really are until later.
What is "The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket?"
The part of the plot where Tessie Hutchinson is stoned.
What is the resolution/conclusion?
Example of this kind of characterization:
"My mother regularly shouted at them, for being slow, stupid, hard of hearing"
What is indirect characterization?
The children pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds, intermixed, peering out for a look at the hidden sun
What is simile?
The cultural purpose of the author who wrote "Jesus Shaves."
What is:
humor?
or
to show different cultures?
An important subject that is covered in the story (typically one word); the first step of writing a theme statement.
What is topic?