Plot
The diagram we use to demonstrate the events that happen in a story.
What is a plot mountain?
The big idea or message of a Story
What is theme?
The struggle between to characters or force in a story.
What is conflict?
The time place and mood of a story
What is setting?
The qualities, physical or mental, that make up a character.
What is character traits?
The beginning, middle, and end of a story and the events in between.
What is plot?
The equation for finding out theme
What is Plot+Conflift=Theme?
The perspective of a narorator who is telling the story
What is point of view?
The feeling of a story
What is mood?
An acronym to help with indirect characterization: speech, thoughts, effect on others, actions, and looks.
What is steal?
Exposition, Triggering Action, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution.
What are all the elements on a plot mountain?
The difference between genre and theme
What is one is a catagory and one is a main idea?
The point of view that has 2 types of it:Omniscient and Limited
what is third person?
An author creates the setting on purpose to convey a message
What is author's purpose?
When the author tells you specifically what the character is like. Ie. The girl with blue hair is very shy.
What is direct characterization?
The point where the tension or action reaches its highest point, and things begin to change.
What is the climax of a story?
The model Mrs. Christenson used to demonstrate theme
What is an umbrella?
The type of conflict in which the protagonist is placed in oppisition with the goverment or cultural tradition.
What is Character Vs. Self?
An environment in the story that has specific times and moods.
What is setting?
Characters that don't change throughout the story.
What is Static/Flat characters?
The introduction of a story usually explains the background that the reader needs to know.
What is an exposition?
Theme affects all the other ______ of a story.
What are elements?
The point of view in which the prounouns I, My, Me ,or We are used
What is first person?
A barber shop, super tense, during the civil war in Colombia.
What is the Lather and Nothing else setting?
Multi-dimensional characters that change throughout the story.
What are Dynamic/Round characters?