plot
Where the most action, drama, change, and excitement occurs in a story.
What is
THE CLIMAX?
What is the lesson or message of the story?
A. theme
B. central idea
C. perspective
What is
A. theme
You can walk the length of Division Avenue, if you've got all day. . . . You come here for the first time, and you think all your hopes and dreams have come true. Your life will end happily ever after.
Which point of view does the narrator use in the passage?
first person
second person
third person
What is second person?
What the author states or tells directly about a character
What is direct characterization?
Character motivation can be defined as
A. The reason an author writes a selection.
B. The way an author introduces a character to the audience.
C. The reason a character thinks, feels, or acts a specific way.
D. The message or lesson in the story.
What is
C. The reason a character thinks, feels, or acts a specific way
Where the characters, setting, and the main conflict are typically introduced.
(Formal term)
What is
THE EXPOSITION
Can theme be just one word? Explain
What is no theme can not be just one word. It is a statement. If it is just one word it is considered a theme topic.
I like the sound of Rowdy's laughter. I don't hear it very often, but it's always sort of this avalanche of ha-ha and ho-ho and hee-hee. I like to make him laugh. He loves my cartoons. He's a big, goofy dreamer, too, just like me.
Which point of view does the narrator use in the passage?
What is
The "L in STEAL analyzes a character's_________
What is looks or physical description
What motives the crab in the story " The Crab that Played with the Sea
A. he likes swimming
B. He wants to live a shell-free life
C. he aims to please the Eldest Magician
D. his own selfishness
What is
D. his own selfishness
What is
SUSPENSE?
A monkey put his hand into the jar of cookies. He grasped as many as he could possibly hold, but when he tried to pull his hand, he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the cookie jar. Unwilling to lose the cookies, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and cried bitterly. What is the theme?
A. Do the right thing, even if it's hard.
B. If you are greedy, you might get nothing.
C. With hard work, you can do anything.
B. If you are greedy, you might get nothing.
The narrator knows all of the characters thoughts and feelings.
A. 1st person
B. 3rd person limited
C. 3rd person omniscient
D. 3rd person objective
What is
C. 3rd person omniscient?
It allows the reader to decide what type of personality a character has without being told by the author. This can encourage the reader to pay closer attention to what a character is doing and saying in order to figure out what type of person he or she is.
What is indirect characterization?
This character temporarily abandons cultural practices when walking in the park with an admiring companion
A. Ihsan
B. Pau Amma
C. Siham
D. Ma Sogolon Conde
Who is
C. Siham?
WHAT IS
FLASHBACK AND FLASHFORWARD
Mrs. Smith was teaching her students about respect. All week she taught her students about treating others with kindness and even how to respect people they didn't agree with. But over the weekend, some of Mrs. Smith's students were at the mall and saw her yelling at a store employee. Mrs. Smith's student Jaime saw her yelling at the employee and thought that respecting others must not be that important after all. What is the theme?
A. Actions speak louder than words.
B. Friendships can come from unexpected places.
C. Through friendship you can overcome your fears.
A. Actions speak louder than words.
When someone is seeing a situation based upon their beliefs, values, experiences.
(answer be must specific)
Cultural perspective
The "E in STEAL analyzes a character's_________
What is the effect on others?
What motivates Daedalus to construct wings for he and his son?
A. He wanted his son Icarus to experience joy
B. He wanted to escape his imprisoned life.
C. He wanted to be the first to invent a flying device.
D. He wanted to share a bonding experience with his son.
What is
B. He wanted to escape his imprisoned life.
When the story plots jumps into the action by starting in the "middle"
What is
IN MEDIA RES?
If you are having trouble determining the theme of a passage, try to come up with this first?
Think of theme topics that might help you then come up with a theme.
In The Sniper,
What cultural experience has shaped the author's perspective?
What is
living in warfare country
fighting in a war
War
This method of characterization is not often used because it requires the author to develop the character according to its meaning.
What is "name" analysis?
Name the two character's whose motivation shifts from providing for his family to saving his own life?
Who is the Fisherman and Sunjata?