What's In A Story?
The people, animals or things that take part in the story are the
What are the characters.
A character arguing with his next door neighbor is which type of conflict
What is person vs person
The most exciting point of a story plot is
What is the climax
True of False: Main Idea and Theme are the same thing in a story.
What is false.
"Looking closer can make something beautiful" (Rules, pg. 19) is evidence of what theme?
What is appreciating things for who or what they are.
Where the story takes place
What is the setting.
A character is struggling against his personal beliefs is this type of conflict
What is person versus self.
All loose ends of the story are tied up in the
What is the resolution.
Themes are true for every person. This means they are what?
What is universal.
First, they never, ever give up, no matter what the odds are against them. And second, like the lions, they work together. Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan (p. 11) is evidence of what theme?
What is working together to solve problems is better than working alone.
If a character is fighting with someone or something, they are engaged in what?
What is a conflict.
A character attends a camping trip and discovers a venomous snake in her tent. This is an example of which kind of conflict
What is person versus nature
These two things are introduced in the exposition.
What are the characters and setting.
Themes can be one or two words. True or False?
What is false.
Leo tries to explain the importance of going along with the group because, like it or not, “we live in a world of ‘them,’” and “they” don’t like Stargirl highlights this theme.
What is it's better to be yourself then to be what others think you should be.
The lesson the reader should learn from the story
What is theme.
A character is fighting racism in the 1960s. This is an example of which type of conflict.
What is person versus society.
This stage in a story comes after the exposition.
What is the rising action.
Theme is defined as
What is the lesson/message in a story.
After her parents’ deaths, Willow is certain that nothing else “binds [her] to this world” (143) (Counting By 7s) is text evidence to support this theme.
What is finding where you belong when the world is always changing.
The plot is
What is the series of events in a story.
Conflict matters in a story because...
What is it makes the story and the plot more interesting.
This comes after the climax.
What is the falling action.
Name two ways to find the theme in the story.
What is look for the conflict, look for how characters develop, look for the consequences or resolutions of character actions.
“I know the NAME of her condition, Doctor,” my mother said with ice in her voice. “But a person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart!” (Out of My Mind, Chapter 4).
Living with a disability does not make who you are.