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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ebenezer Scrooge | A christmas party pooper, rich, nasty, rude, stingy, gready, Jacob marley's business partner, old |
| Charles Dickens | author of a Christmas Carol |
| Bob Cratchit | works for scrooge, christmas spirit, shy |
| Jacob Marley | Scrooge's old dead business partner, has chains and money boxes, is the narrator |
| Tiny Tim | crippled, bob Cratchit's son |
| Fezziwig | Scrooge's old boss, lots of christmas spirit, new when to be strict and knew when to be nice |
| Ghost of Christmas past | old + young, dressed in white, has holly branch, show's scrooge his past |
| Ghost of Christmas presant | carries torch, surrounded by food |
| Ghost of Christmas future | dark + hooded, never speeks, show scrooge his presant |
| Plot | sequence of events in a story |
| Exposition | the part of the plot graph where the author intoduces characters, setting and dramatic situations |
| Rising action | the part of the story where the tension is building (including exposition), builds to the climax. |
| Climax | The highest point of dramatic conflict or tension |
| Falling action | not as much dramatic tension, after climax leading to the resolution |
| Resolution | The conclusion of the story. includes the climax till the end of the story |
| Conflict | the story problem, the cental source of tension & drama |
| Internal | Character vs. Self (fear, dicission) |
| External | Character vs. Character (fight) |
| Character vs. Himself | involves character, phychological conflicts with themselves |
| Character vs. Character | involves conflicts between people |
| Character vs. Nature | involves conflict inbetween an individual and the natural world |
| Character vs. Soceity | involves conflict between individuals and a large group |
| Setting | the environment in which a story takes place |
| Stage Directions | bracked instructions abut sets, costumes and movement s |
| Dialogue | the actual words that characters speark, authors use dialogue skillfully in the short story to portray characters and dramatize conflict |
| Foreshadowing | a writing technique that gives readers clues about events that will happen later in the story |
| Novel | a long work of fiction, that tells a story anout imaginary people who live in a made up world |
| Drama | a work, written in prose or poetry, that tells a story through words/actions of characters on stage |
| Short Story | a brief work of fiction that tells a story about imaginary characters |
| Characterization | the methods a writer used to communicate information about characters to readers |
| Point of View | the perspective from which a story is told |
| Theme | the story's main idea/"message" |
| Leita | The Third Wish |
| Mr. Peters | The Third Wish |
| Margot | All Summer in a Day |
| Rikki-Tikki-Tavi | Rikki-Tikki-Tavi |
| Nag | Rikki-Tikki-Tavi |
| Nagaina | Rikki-Tikki-Tavi |
| Darzee | Rikki-Tikki-Tavi |
| Teddy | Rikki-Tikki-Tavi |
| Rudi | A Boy and a Man |
| Captain Winter | A Boy and a Man |