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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the plot? | what happens in a story |
| What are the 6 parts of the plot? | Introduction, Inciting Incident, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Conclusion |
| What happens in the Introduction? | Setting, Characters Introduced, Mood, Atmoshpere |
| What is the Inciting Incident? | The problem being introduced |
| What is the Rising Action? | More crisis are introduced leading to the climax |
| What is the Climax? | Where the problem is at its greatest. After this point the problem begins to be solved |
| What is the Falling Action? | Problem being solved |
| What is the Conclusion? | Action ends, problems solved, loose ends tied up |
| What is Conflict? | The problem in the story |
| What are the 5 types of Conflicts? | Person vs. Person(large group/society), Person vs. Self, Person vs. Nature, Person vs. Technology, Person vs. Unknown |
| What is Point of View? | The narrator's perspective |
| What are the 3 forms of Point of View? | First Person(I, We, Our), Second Person(You), Third Person(He, She, It, Her, His, They, Them, Their) |
| What is Limited Point of View? | Some of the thoughts and feelings of some of the characters are revealed |
| What is Omniscient Point of View? | All knowing narrator, the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters are known |
| What is the Theme? | Lesson learned, main idea, moral, universal-> applies to a large group of people |
| What is the protagonist? | Main character |
| What is the antagonist? | Provides conflict for the protagonist |
| What is the Minor Character? | Not important to the events except to provide interaction for the protagonist |
| What is the Silent Character? | Someone who is either seen and not heard or heard and not seen. The character still has an impact on the events in the story |
| What is the Active Character? | A person who is affected by the events of the story and therefore changes his/her personality |
| What is a Passive Character? | A person who does not change his/her personality because of events |
| What is Characterization? | We know what a character's personality is |
| 5 things that point out Charcterization | What a character does, what a character says, what a character thinks, what other people say, what other people think |
| What are the 7 elements of suspense? | Irony, Conflict, Setting, Atmosphere, Foreshadowing, Sympathetic Attachment to Main Character, Complications |
| What is Irony? | The opposite of what we expect to occur happens |
| What is Conflict? | The audience wonders if the main character will overcome or win the conflict |
| What is Setting? | The time and place can create suspense depending on the circumstances |
| What is Atmosphere? | Created through setting, mood, conflicts, and complications |
| What is Foreshadowing? | There is a hint of something fearful(only for suspense) that will happen in the future |
| What is Sympathetic Attachment to the Main Character? | The author makes the audience like the character so the audience cares about what happens to him/her |
| What is Complications? | Small problems occur and the audience wonders how the characters will deal with them |
| What is Rhyme? | Words that have the same end sound e.g. cat, rat, sat, hat, mat |
| What is Rhythm? | The stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry, the number of patterns in a line determines the rhythm e.g. iamb->u/ spondee->// an a pest->uu/ |
| What is Metaphor? | A comparison not using "like" or "as" e.g. The wind was a train in the hall |
| What is Simile? | A comparison using "like" or "as" or another comparative word e.g. The wind was like a train in the hall |
| What is Alliteration? | Two or more words that have the same beginning sound e.g. Kitty Cats Catch Kites Carefully |
| What is Personification? | Giving inanimate objects human qualities e.g. The pots giggled on the stove |
| What is Oxymoron? | Two opposite words that form an understood phrase e.g. Jumbo shrimp, Pretty ugly, Fresh frozen |
| What is Paradox? | A seemingly impossible situation e.g. Living dead |
| What is Hyperbole? | Extreme exaggeration e.g. He is as tall as a mountain |
| What is Euphony? | Soft sounding words e.g. Sing softly of fluffy clouds |
| What is Cacophony? | Harsh sounding words e.g. The car crashed into the junk |
| What is Onomatopoeia? | A word that imitates the sound e.g. Crash, Hiss, Buzz, Boom |
| What is Imagery? | Words used to create pictures in our minds, may appeal to one or more of the senses e.g. The dead fish lay on the sand; worms oozed through the slimy scales as it decomposed |
| What is Symbol? | A word or picture that represents something else e.g. Heart-->Love |
| What is Repetition? | Words or phrases repeated for effect e.g. "Never, never, never, never, never give up" Churchill |
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