Literary Terms
What part of the plot line provides time and place.
What is the setting?
A trip through the country, a night in a cave, and a town called Tahlequah.
What is the setting for chapters 4-6?
Billy had long dreamt of owning not one, but two dogs.
What is third person point of view?
The part of the plot line that represents the highest point in the conflict.
What is the climax of the story?
A cry from a mountain lion in the middle of the night.
What is the Climax of Chapters 4-6?
You walk into the room and see a flickering light. A chill goes down your spine.
What is second person?
This point on the plot line is the conflict that gets the story started.
What is the inciting incident?
The offer from Jim Hodges to drive him to town in a week's time.
What is the inciting incident that made Billy decide to go after the puppies himself?
I could tell from the look on his face he was gunnin' for a fight!
What is First Person Point of View?
A character having to make a difficult decision is this type of conflict.
The two types of conflict found in Chapters 4-6.
What is Character vs. Self? (Decision to go by himself) and What is Character vs. Society?
When the narrator of a story knows everything that everyone is thinking and doing.
What is Third Person Omniscient (subjective)?
Besides "Internal Conflict", the other broad category of conflict.
What is "External Conflict"?
What is the fact that mountain lions will only attack you if it's injured or cornered?
A narrative technique where the story is told using "he," "she," "they"), but the narrator only knows the thoughts, feelings, and experiences of one specific character.
What is Third Person Limited Omniscient (Subjective)?