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Plot Diagram
Community
Conflict
Utopia/Dystopia
Misc.
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What is the Exposition of a story?
When they introduce the characters and setting of a novel.
100
What is "Sameness?"
"Sameness" was the communities answer to stop violence, war, and hunger by making everyone equal and the same and eliminating differences.
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What are the 4 types of conflict?
Man vs. Self Man vs. Man Man vs. Society Man vs Nature
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What is a UTOPIAN society?
A perfect or ideal world
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What is the definition of apprehensive?
anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen
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What event in "The Giver" begins the Rising Action?
When Jonas gets skipped at the ceremony or When Jonas is selected as Receiver of Memory.
200
During which event do you get your age appropriate items? (i.e. jobs, bikes etc.)
During the December Ceremony
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Identify the conflict in the following passage: "From the opposite side of the field came an opposing 'Counter-attack!' From their hiding places a horde of children --Jonas recognized Fiona in the group--emerged, running in a crouched position, firing across the field. Several of them stopped, grabbed their pwn shoulders and chests with exaggerated gestures, and pretended to be hit."
Man vs. Man
200
What is a DYSTOPIAN society?
A dysfunctional society.
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What is THEME?
The main idea, moral, and/or take-away from a story.
300
Draw a plot diagram.
/\ / \ / \ / \ __________/ \__________
300
What is one way that everyone is the same?
Answers will vary
300

Identify the conflict in the following passage: Sideways, spinning, the sled hit a bump in the hill and Jonas was jarred loose and thrown violently into the air. He fell with his leg twisted under him and could hear the crack of bone. His face scraped along jagged edges of ice and when he came at last to a stop he lay shocked and still, feeling nothing at first but fear.

Man vs. Nature

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Name 1 way in which Jonas' world is a UTOPIA?
Answers will vary
300
Identify the Point of View in the following passage: It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened. No. Wrong word, Jonas thought.
3rd Person - Limited
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What is the climax of The Giver?
When Jonas learns what it means to be "Released."
400
Why does the community take Pills?
To get rid of feelings or to get rid of "Stirrings"
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Identify the conflict in the following passage: "'Well...' Jonas had to stop and think it through. 'If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and DECIDE things! A blue tunic, or a red one?'"
Man vs. Society
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Name one way in which Jonas's world is a DYSTOPIA?
Answers will vary.
400
Why does the Chief Elder apologize to the audience at the Ceremony of Twelve?
She caused them anxiety about Jonas's assignment
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What is another term for Resolution in a plot diagram?
Denouement
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Why don't Jonas's parents say that they love him?
Love is obsolete and they can't feel it.
500
Identify the conflict in the following passage: "Now he was [starving]. If he had stayed in the community, he would not be. It was as simple as that. Once he had yearned for choice. Then, when he had had a choice, he had made the wrong one: the choice to leave. And now he was starving. But if he had stayed...
Man vs. Self
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Why is Jonas's world considered a UTOPIA to those who live in it, but considered a DYSTOPIA to us?
Because they have been taught since birth to believe what everyone has told them about "release."
500

Why does Jonas give memories to Gabriel?

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