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Plot
Point of View
Theme and Character
Conflict and Author's Purpose
Misc.
100
Where the action is at the most exciting point.
What is climax?
100
This is told from a narrator from in the story.
What is first person point of view?
100
Theme
What is the message or moral of a story?
100
Oppositional forces or struggles the characters face.
What is conflict?
100
Different categories of stories.
What is genre?
200
The beginning of the story where the characters are introduced.
What is the introduction/exposition?
200
Where the narrator is from outside the story.
What is third person point of view?
200
A character that stays the same in a story.
What is a static character?
200
The part of the plot where the conflicts are resolved.
What is the resolution?
200
The text feature that explains what is going on in a photograph.
What is a caption?
300
Time and place of the story.
What is setting?
300
Where the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters.
What is omniscient?
300
A character that changes in a story.
What is a dynamic character?
300
Where a character has a conflict with something in nature.
What is person vs. nature/environment?
300
The genre of a fictional story set in a past time period.
What is historical fiction?
400
All of the events leading up to the climax.
What are rising events?
400
Where the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character.
What is limited point of view?
400
Two common themes.
What is acceptance, courage, loyalty, honesty, perseverance.....?
400
Three different author's purposes for writing.
What are to persuade, to explain/inform, to entertain, or to express feelings?
400
The focus of a plot which takes part in the action.
What is a character?
500
Where the story jumps back in time to an earlier part of the story.
What is a flashback?
500
The pronouns he, she, they, them are used.
What pronouns are used in third person point of view?
500
Travis was having a really bad day. He was being rude to everyone. He pushed Frederick on his way to class, and even threw Michael's books out of his hands. When it came time to go to the in-school game Travis got to the concession stand and ordered a hot dog and soda. As Travis waited for his snacks, he sunk his hand into his pocket only to find that he had lost his money. He turned to see that Michael was laughing at him. An appropriate theme to this story.
What is "what goes around comes around"?
500
The overall feelings or emotions in a story.
What is mood?
500
Sequence in order of when it happened.
What is chronological order?