Plot/Story Elements
What is the Climax
What is a Protagonist?
What is the main character in a story, often the hero.
Name the two types of conflict.
What is internal and external conflict.
What is theme?
Name the theme of Three Little Pigs.
What is hard work and teamwork.
What is the exposition?
What is the beginning of the story where the characters and setting are introduced.
What is an antagonist?
What is the character who is working against the protagonist, often a villain.
What type of conflict is it when the problem is occurring within the characters own mind?
What is internal conflict.
What are two examples of common themes?
Family
Love
Nature
Hard work
Teamwork
Where is the setting of Flush (location and season).
What is the Florida Keys in the summer.
In the Three Little Pigs, what was the Rising Action of the story?
What is the Three Little Pigs build their houses in the woods.
In Flush, who is the Protagonist?
Noah Underwood
What is external conflict?
What is a conflict occurring with a character and an outside force.
Name one of the main themes in Flush?
What is nature, family, friendship, teamwork.
What is the Rising Action in Flush?
Noah's Dad sinking the Coral Queen.
What is the Falling Action in the Three Little Pigs?
What is the third little pig building his house out of brick.
In the Three Little Pigs, who is the antagonist?
What is the Big Bad Wolf.
In the Three Little Pigs, the main conflict was the Big Bad Wolf blowing down the houses, what type of conflict is this an example of?
What is external conflict.
Kim’s diet was terrible. All she ate was chips and sweets and jelly sandwiches on white bread. She was overweight and she was always tired. When her doctor told her that she felt bad because of what she was eating, Kim was amazed. She didn’t realize that she had so much power to make herself feel better. Kim stopped eating junk food and started eating fruits and vegetables. In a few weeks she felt like a new person.
What is the theme of this story?
What is taking responsibility for your health.
State an example that you know (not from Flush or the Three Little Pigs) of a Protagonist and Antagonist.
*Must label which one is which
Answers will vary
Name all five parts of the Plot Diagram.
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
What is antagonist.
When Noah's Dad sinks the Coral Queen in Flush, what type of conflict is this an example of?
What is external.
Ryan’s mother was trying to learn to cook. She was not very good at it, though. One night she burned the casserole. Another night she scalded the soup. Ryan and his father did their best to eat what she put in front of them, though. “She will get better,” Ryan’s father told Ryan. “We have to encourage her so that she will not give up.” One afternoon Ryan’s mother put too much baking soda in the cookies and they were so bitter that Ryan had to spit a bite of cookie out into his napkin when his mother wasn’t looking. “I am sorry that I am not a good cook,” his mother told him. “That is okay,” Ryan said. “The important thing is that you keep working on it, and then you will get better.”
What is theme of this story?
What is honesty.
"Should I stay, or should I go to the basketball game?"
What type of conflict is this an example of?
What is internal conflict.