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Plot
Character
Setting
Theme
Reading check
100
The second part of the plot involving the rising action. It begins with the point where the conflict is introduced and goes to the climax.
What is the complication?
100
The main character of the story.
What is the protagonist?
100
The time and place of a story.
What is the setting?
100
Two parts that make up a theme.
What is the topic and the message the author is sending about that topic.
100
The main rule Eckles is given when he goes back in time to hunt a dinosaur.
What is "Do not go off the path".
200
The final part of the plot which often includes the falling action.
What is the resolution?
200
The character who works against the main character. Not always the bad guy.
What is the antagonist?
200
The feeling a story's setting creates for the reader.
What is mood?
200
Theme of "Most Dangerous Game"
What is ______________?
200
The irony of "The Gift of the Magi"
What is Della and Jim give up their most prized possession to buy a Christmas present for the other, but the gift can only be used with their most prized possession.
300
The first part of the plot which provides background information but has little or no action.
What is the exposition?
300
A character who grows and changes throughout the story. He or she is characterized in a number of ways and seems like a real person.
What is dynamic?
300
The year 2055, planet Earth.
What is the setting of "Sound of Thunder"?
300
The theme of "Most Dangerous Game"
What is __________________?
300
A main symbol of "The Scarlet Ibis"
What is the scarlet ibis? What is the color red?
400
An internal conflict where the main character struggles with some part of himself.
What is person vs. self?
400
A type of character that is like a cardboard cutout. He doesn't change or grow and doesn't really surprise the reader in any way.
What is static?
400
Setting of "The Scarlet Ibis"
What is the American South during WWII?
400
The theme of "The Necklace"
What is ___________________?
400
The four traps Rainsford sets for Zaroff in "Most Dangerous Game"
What are the Malay Mancatcher (dead tree leaned on living one), the Burmese Tiger Pit (hole with sharpened sticks), knife attached to springy tree, faking his death and laying in wait in Zaroff's bedroom.
500
External conflict. There are three types.
What is person vs. person, person vs. world, and person vs. nature?
500
The methods of characterization.
What are a characters appearance, actions, speech, thoughs and other's reactions to the character?
500
Clues that lead us to the setting of "The Possibility of Evil"
What are the soda shop, grocery store, etc?
500
The theme of "The Possibility of Evil"
What is ____________________?
500
How Eckles knows that he has changed the future.
What is language is changed, Deutscher is president?