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Story Elements
Freytag's Pyramid
Social class
main idea authors purpose
Characters
100
The beginning of the story
What is exposition
100
Madame Loisel is poor but she wants to be rich
What is the problem?
100
"The sight of the little Breton girl who came to do the work in her little house aroused heartbroken regrets and hopeless dreams in her mind."
What is middle class?
100
this tells what the story is mainly about
What is main idea?
100
I held a large envelope with a surprise
Who is the husband?
200
The villain in the story
Who is the antagonist
200
sequence of events that leads to the climax, this happens then that happens
What is the rising action?
200
"Madame Loisel came to know the ghastly life of abject poverty."
What is lower class?
200
The author gave me facts or he tried to teach me something.
What is inform?
200
"It was not I who sold this necklace Madame; I must have merely supplied the clasps."
Who is the Jeweler?
300
Where the story takes place
What is the setting?
300
The problem is addressed
What is the climax?
300
"Her husband worked in the evenings at putting straight a merchants accounts, and often at night he die copying at two pence halfpenny a page."
What is lower class?
300
The author tried to change my opinion or convince me of something?
What is persuade?
300
"I possessed eighteen thousand francs left to him by his father"
Who is the husband?
400
Madame Loisel
Who is the main character?
400
Once the problem is addressed the problem is solved
What is dramatic climax or what is the falling action?
400
"Her tastes were simple because she had never been able to afford any other, but she was as unhappy as though she had married beneath her."
What is middle class?
400
The author tried to make me laugh or he tried to tell me a story.
What is entertain?
400
"She flung herself on her friend's breast, embraced her frenziedly, and wen away with her treasure.
Who is Madame Loisel?
500
Hero or main character
What is the protagonist?
500
The artistic arrangement of a sequence of events
What is plot?
500
"She imagined delicate meals, gleaming silver, tapestries peopling the walls with folk of a past age and strange birds in fairy forests."
What is upper class?
500
It is as easy as pie
What is author's purpose
500
I did not recognize a poor women who approached me while I was walking?
Who is Madame Forestier?