Author's Toolbox
Examples
Stories From Class
All About Mr. Loyd
MOVIE
100

This is when an author hints at something important that will happen later on in the story

What is foreshadowing?
100

An abandoned mansion is an example of this author's tool

What is setting?

100

In "The Lottery", this was the surprise at the end of the story

What is they killed Tessie with rocks?

100

Mr. Loyd favorite football team

What is Cincinnati Bengals?

100

When was there irony in Monsters Inc?

What is Boo not being in the garbage

200
These are the 2 types of irony

What are situational and dramatic?

200
The pace is usually slowest during this point of on a plot mountain

What is the exposition?

200

Name a moment of foreshadowing in "The Landlady"

What are the stuffed animals, the names in the book, or her saying that the other men are still staying with her?

200

Mr. Loyd went to college here

What is Grand View?

200

What was the mystery in the Twilight Zone episode?

What is how the place crashed.

300

These are the 2 main parts of a setting

What are time and place?

300

The doll in Alma is an example of. 

What is foreshadowing?

300

In "The Twilight Zone" this was the main setting of the story

What is the Airplane?

300

What is Mr. Loyd favorite meal?

What is Hamburger and French Fries

300

What was the tension in Home Alone?

What is the Wet Bandits in the house.

400

Define point of view

What is who and how the story is told. 

400

A fire station catching on fire is an example of what? Be specific!

What is situational irony?

400

What is the tension in the Elevator

What is the fat lady in the Elevator with Martin.

400

What are Mr. Loyd's dogs names

What is Appa and Gus

400

What was the foreshadowing in Home Alone?

What is the Spider Crawling in the house then on bandits face. 

500

Name 3 techniques to tell a non-linear story

What are flashforwards, flashbacks, time skips, and parallel plots?

500

This point of view is when an outside force is telling everybody's story

What is 3rd person omniscient?

500

This is an example of situational irony in the short film "Fuelled"

 What is she became like the killer she was hunting?

500

Name 3 activities Mr. Loyd did in high school

What are wrestling, baseball, Student Council.

500

What was the surprise in Fulled?

What is the character getting in fight and blowing up gas station.