Character
Define: "Antagonist"
Character who impedes the protagonist's pursuit of their goal.
Define: "Setting"
The time when and place where a story takes place
Define: "Theme"
The central idea that a writer hopes to communicate to their reader.
Define: "Plot"
The sequence of events that make up a story.
What is the "driving force" behind plot?
Conflict
Define: "Antihero"
Advantage of authors writing about settings that they've experienced.
More Detail = More Vivid Picture for Reader
What are the 2 components of theme?
Concept & What Author is Saying About It
State the first major plot stage
Exposition
Define: "Diction"
The words we choose to use
Define: "Deuteragonist"
Greek word for secondary character
List the 2 Functions of Setting
Would "Love" be a theme or a concept?
Concept
State the phase directly before and directly after the climax
Rising Action & Falling Action
Name of the painter whose paintings you'd written stories about.
Edward Hopper
Perspective where narrator is not a character in the story.
Define: "Symbolic Setting"
Specific place used to signify a concept or idea.
Would "Money is the Root of All Evil" be a theme or a concept?
Theme
What plot stage would you find after the denouement?
None
What is meant by "show don't tell"?
Show what's happening through details; don't explicitly tell.
Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man & the Sea has what type of antagonist?
Nature
Author of Just Kids, the book I'd read during our lesson on Setting & Self
Patti Smith
Construct a theme from the following concept: "Loneliness"
Multiple answers
What language does "Denouement" come from? What does it mean?
French; means "to untie"
List 3 writers from the Matching Writers to Writing lesson.
Ernest Hemingway
Patti Smith
Jane Austen
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ice Spice
Sylvia Plath