Dramatic Elements
The voice or character telling the story.
What is a Narrator
A character trait for Stargirl
What is kind, outgoing, ect
I therefore decree that anyone over seventy-one must be banished from the village and left in the mountains to die” (Uchida 3).
what is to force them to leave a place.
The time and place in which the events of the story unfold
What is Setting
What might Juno and Nora do next?
Did you make an inference?
A major unit of a drama
What is an Act?
Cool: popular; acceptable
What is the connotative Meaning?
"They were so intent on her, and the smell of her, that I might as well not have existed" (Paulsen 17).
What is focused or showing eager attention?
The idea or feeling that a word suggests, or that our culture or our emotions give the word.
What is Connotation
A summary of “Robot Rumble”?
What is a summary of “Robot Rumble”?Two friends enter a pair of robots they built into a competition that requires the machines to find their way through a difficult maze. Trouble arises when the two robots start fighting one another because they cannot agree on which direction to move at a decision point.
INSTRUCTIONS WRITTEN BY THE PLAYWRIGHT TO DESCRIBE THE APPEARANCE AND ACTIONS OF THE CHARACTERS AS WELL AS SETS, PROPS, COSTUMES, SOUND EFFECTS AND LIGHTING.
What are stage directions?
Maleeka and Victor both have a teacher who goes out of their way to try and help them, but Maleeka's teacher does this by bringing up her differences while Victor's teacher helps him fit in.
What is Comparing and Contrasting
I therefore decree that anyone over seventy-one must be banished from the village and left in the mountains to die” (Uchida 3).
What is to announce a command
When 2 or more characters narrate the story.
What are Mulitiple Points of view?
How does the time when the story is set contribute to the development of the main conflict in the story?
The factor that allows Sona and Clank to do things that today’s robots cannot.
Conversation between characters
What is dialogue
When Maleeka arrives to class late.
What is the exposition in The Skin I'm In?
"Once more the lord commended the young farmer and rewarded him with many pieces of gold" (Uchida 36).
What is to praise?
Main Problem is introduced.
What is Inciting Incident
Which event in the story results in a change in the way Juno and Nova think the competition will end?
The two robots begin fighting when they cannot agree on which path to take at a decision point.
A script used in production of scripted television series.
Victor wants to impress Teresa so she will want to go out with him.
What is the main conflict?
"the older ones having left home for early marriage or the lure of the city" (Collier 6).
What is a pull or desire?
HINTS IN A SURROUNDING TEXT THAT READERS CAN USE TO DETERMINE THE MEANING OF A WORD.
WHAT ARE CONTEXT CLUES ?
What is the main theme of the story?
Things do not always go as planned.