The plot stage that is the dramatic turning point of a story. Where the problem is either solved or not solved.
What is the climax?
100
Another word for the primary problem in a story
What is conflict?
100
Although you may be annoying to sit next to if you constantly do this during a movie, it is an essential habit of good readers.
What is making predictions?
100
Names of words that are based on the sound they make.
What is onomonopoeia?
100
Another word that means to put in time order
What is chronological?
200
The plot stage where the main characters and the primary conflict or problem is introduced to the reader.
What is the exposition?
200
The two main types of conflict in fiction
What are internal and external?
200
Authors use the plot of their stories to help you learn this.
What is the theme/life lesson?
200
When you analyze what happens in a story and the reason it happened.
What is cause and effect?
200
When you write about your life as a series of stories
What is a memoir?
300
The plot stage where the final outcome is revealed and all loose ends are tied up. Basically answers, 'how does it all turn out'?
What is the resolution?
300
All internal conflicts are conflicts between 'man' and _____________________.
What is himself?
300
When an author suggests or gives hints/clues in order for a reader to "read between the lines", this is called ______________.
What is making an inference?
300
When the author gives subtle little clues about the future.
What is foreshadowing?
300
Another word for thinking about what you are thinking about.
What is metacognition?
400
The majority of any story is this plot stage. Includes the protagonist's attempts to solve the main problem/conflict in the story
What is Rising Action?
400
In most survival stories, the main character is battling what kind of external conflict?
What is nature?
400
Good readers are able to take several pieces of information and put them together in order to this (no crayons required!)
What is drawing a conclusion?
400
An unexpected twist in a story that often adds humor.
What is irony?
400
When words have an implied positive or negative tone to them.
What is connotation?
500
Shows the immediate results of the climax and brings the story to a close.
What is Falling Action
500
Of all the external conflicts, this is perhaps the most difficult to resolve because it involves attempting to change the way many people feel and act.
What is man vs. society?
500
Based on attitudes, actions, and comments, this is another word for a narrator's trustworthiness.
What is reliability?
500
Two of the three techniques a writer uses to create suspense.
What are vividly describing a character's anxiety or fear; vivid sensory descriptions, and repeating words and phrases?