Plot
Foreshadowing
Reading Strategies
Events
Characters
100
Where the conflict presents itself.
Inciting Incident
100
When the author uses tangible items to hint at what is to come.
Concrete Foreshadowing
100
The main idea in an informational or non-fiction text.
Central Idea
100
Who's church did Jem and Scout go to?
Calpurnia's
100
This person is from Finch's Landing and has a son who does the lining in church.
Calpurnia
200
The background information in the text.
Exposition
200
When the author uses leading phrases to hint at what is to come.
Evocative Foreshadowing
200
What kind of answers do thin questions have?
Explicit
200
Who comes to stay with the Finch family?
Aunt Alexandra
200
The sheriff of Maycomb County.
Heck Tate
300
Where questions get answered in the text.
Falling Action
300
When the author states an event that will happen later on in the text to keep the reader interested.
Prominent Foreshadowing
300
What kind of answers do thick questions have?
Implicit with explicit evidence
300
Why didn't Dill come back to Maycomb right away in the summer?
He had a new father and they were supposed to build a fishing boat together.
300
Says that Fine Folks are people who have been on the same plot of land for generations.
Aunt Alexandra
400
Where everyone ends up
Resolution
400
When the author hints at what is to come using non-tangible items like colors and character behaviors
Abstract Foreshadowing
400
Not directly stated in the text or inferred or implied
Implicit
400
Why does Dill think Boo Radley doesn't run away?
Because he has nowhere to run to
400
Got to Maycomb by stealing thirteen dollars from his mother's purse.
Dill
500
The point of highest tension
Climax
500
The author telling us that Jem hurt his arm at the beginning of the book is an example of what type of foreshadowing?
Prominent
500
What two things do you have to think about to make an inference or a logical guess?
What we know about the book. What we know about the real world.
500
What is Scout's definition of Fine Folks?
People who do the best they can with what they have.
500
Says that mixed children don't have a place in Maycomb because nobody wants them.
Jem