Plot
This is the term for when a story’s events have a clear beginning where the conflict is introduced, and events progress in time-order until the resolution.
What is a linear plot?
This is the term for a position statement about a debatable topic.
What is claim?
This is the term for when a story is narrated by a character who says “I” and “me”?
What is first person?
This is the term for when the author poses a thought-provoking question.
What is a rhetorical question?
This is the narrative point of view Roland Smith used to narrate Peak.
What is first person?
This is the term for when the narrator uses story details to hint at events that will come later.
What is foreshadowing?
This is the term for the opposing ideas that an author briefly considers.
What is a counterclaim/counterargument?
This is the term for an outside voice narrating the story and zoning in on one particular character’s thoughts and feelings using “he” and “her”? (NOTE: This answer must be specific.)
What is 3rd person limited?
This is the term for when the author echoes something (like a word or phrase) to draw attention to it.
What is repetition?
On the first two pages, Peak is in a truck in Tibet on the way to Everest; then he backtracks to climbing the skyscraper. This is how the reader knows that the author structured Peak ____________.
What is in medias res?
This is the term for when the story’s events involve timelines that jump around instead of flowing in clear chronological order.
What is a non-linear plot?
This is the term for an author’s response to counterarguments.
What is a rebuttal?
This is the term for an outside voice narrating the story and sharing many characters’ thoughts and feelings? (NOTE: this answer must be specific.)
What is 3rd person omniscient?
This is the term for when an author explains something by comparing it to something else that’s familiar.
What is an analogy?
These are examples of an author's ________: sarcastic, informative, playful, serious, etc.
What is tone?
This is the term for a scene showing something that happened earlier that is inserted in a way that briefly interrupts the flow of the plot.
What is flashback?
This is the term for disproportionate, often unfair, inclination for or against something that an author may have about a topic.
What is bias?
This is the term when an author uses 2nd person “you” to connect the reader to the content?
What is direct address?
This is is the term for when the author speaks directly to the reader/audience
What is direct address?
What is situational irony?
This is the term for starting the story in the middle of things (as opposed to at the very beginning).
What is in medias res?
This is the term for something that stirs an audience’s feelings (as opposed to logic).
What is emotional appeal?
Josie knew that she wanted to go to the 8th-grade party, but she wasn't sure about her best friend. This is an example of this point of view.
What is 3rd person limited?
This is the term for when the author puts two contrasting ideas right next to each other.
What is juxtaposition?
When Peak realized that his dad had gotten his letters and hadn't responded, this created an internal _______ for Peak.
What is conflict?