Plot
The highest point in a story; the turning point
What is climax?
The moral, message, or lesson that a character learns in a story
What is Theme
Mom is a real bear when she’s mad.
What is a metaphor?
A group of lines in a poem, separated by space
What is a stanza?
Luke Garner is an example of what type of character?
What is a protagonist?
a component of a story ends unresolved, usually in a suspenseful or shocking way
What is Cliffhanger?
Three pigs build homes of straw, stick, and stone. A wolf destroys the homes of straw and stick and ate the pigs living in them. However, the wolf was unable to destroy the stone house, which took more effort from the third pig to build.
What is "hard work pays off"?
The clock on the wall laughed at me as I tried to finish my test before class ended.
What is personification?
Prior Knowledge + Text Evidence
What is an Inference?
The setting of a story includes the...
Time, Place, and social climate
What is Exposition, (Inciting Incident), Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution
Friendship...Family...Secrets...Love...Fear...Death
Are examples of...
What is topics/subjects?
Your kiss lies on my face
Like the first snow
Upon a summer place
What is simile?
POV: pronouns like I, my, and we are used
What is first person point of view?
An author describing a character's personality through the S.T.E.A.L method.
What is indirect characterization?
an interruption in the chronological order of the main narrative to take a reader back in time to the past events in a character's life
What is Flashback?
Name the difference between theme and main idea.
What is theme is universal lessons and main idea is what the story is about?
A pack of blueberries is cheap in United States but costs an arm and a leg in Indonesia!
What is Idiom?
Based on the context clues in the sentence below, ecstatic means:
They were ecstatic at the birth of their baby. They couldn't stop smiling for days.
What is "excited"?
The attic is important to the plot of Among the Hidden because...
What is the place where Luck sees and plans to visit Jen?
a struggle between two opposing forces usually the protagonist and the antagonist
What is conflict?
If a topic of Among the Hidden is government control... a theme would be
What is "the government isn't always fair"?
The charming children chat in the corner.
What is alliteration?
Point of View: A narrator uses words like "he" and "she;" the narrator is all-knowing and all seeing
What is Third Person Omniscient?
The antagonist of Among the Hidden
What is "The Government"?