CRASH REVIEW

PARTS OF A PLOT DIAGRAMExposition: The ___________ is set up, and the ______________information is provided.

Rising Action: ________build toward the turning point.

Climax: The _________________ of the story.Falling Action: The ________that follow the __________leading to the resolution

Resolution: The __________ is ____________; final outcome is achieved.

conflictbackground

Events

turning point

events

climax

conflict resolved

PLOT DIAGRAM

Crash meets Penn for the first time

Crash encourages Penn and helps him win the relay qualifier

Rising Action

Falling Action

Climax

ExpositionResolution

Scooter has a stroke.

Take a look at our examples.What other events belong in this diagram?Keep in mind thatthere are MANY more events that could go in these spots than actually fit. What events are important to you?

CONFLICT:

Two opposing forces working against each other.

CONFLICT Someone in disagreement with themselves.Ex: indecision, guilt

One person or group in disagreement of competition with another person or group

A problem involving nature, weather, animals, or healthOne or a few people against a large group or community and their expectations. (peer pressure)

Person

Self

Nature

Society

CONFLICT REVIEW 1. Joan of Ark dressed like a man in order to fight for her people.

 

 

2. Hansel and Gretel get lost in the woods and cannot find their way home.

 

 

3. Bubba Watson loses his cool against Tiger Woods in the PGA championship.

 

 

4. Mike is wrestling with his guilt over not telling his parents the truth.

 

 

5. Auburn and Alabama have a longstanding football rivalry in the SEC.

Person vs. Nature

Person vs. Society

Person vs. Person

Person vs. Self

Person vs. Person

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: WRITING OR _____THAT IS NOT MEANT TO BE TAKEN ________. literally

speech

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE - SIMILE A. simile: uses _______ or ___________ to make a comparison between two

________ things

Examples: "pale as a ghost", "spread like wildfire”

like asunlike

BEST/WORST SIMILES Borrowed from this blog. Note that most of these are not similes at all…the students just

thought they were. Can you spot them?

Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.

He was as tall as a 6′3″ tree.

John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.

She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.

Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

The lamp just sat there, like an inanimate object.

He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.

It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE - PERSONIFICATION personification: _________________ subject is given _____________ qualities

Example: The flower danced in the wind.

Inanimate human-like

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE - METAPHOR metaphor: Like a simile, a _________________ is being made between two

__________ things, but a metaphor does NOT use “like” or “as.”Example: She became the thorn in his side.

comparisonunlike

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE - PRACTICE

1) “He was walking like he owned the place, both hands in his pockets, sort of swaying lah-dee-dah with each step” (Spinelli 2)

2) “’Fate smiled and destiny/ laughed as she came to my cradle…’ (Merchant)” (Palacio 1).

3) “To Daisy, all our faces look alike, as flat and pale as the moon” (Palacio 82).

4) “just some jerks from my school, he says. a kid named Julian and his two gorillas, henry and miles” (Palacio 197).

5) “August is the Sun. Me and Mom and Dad are planets orbiting the Sun” (Palacio 82).

6) “’I’m not surprised you’re the first one to show up here this year, Coogan, I hear you’re a loose cannon’” (Spinelli 38).

7) “On the other hand, I was kind of curious to get an inside look at the boss dorks and the garage that thought it was a house” (Spinelli 11).

8) “But this year there seems to be a shift in the cosmos. The galaxy is changing. Planets are falling out of alignment” (Palacio 83).

9) “We both grew up thinking Scooter’s bed was the safest place in the world, like a boat in a sea full of crocs” (Spinelli 74).

10) “I was almost starting to enjoy this kid, like I was the cat and he was the mouse” (Spinelli 11).

Simile

Simile

Simile

Simile

Personification

Personification

Metaphor

Metaphor

Metaphor

Metaphor

RoundFlat

VS.

Classifying Characters:

-a fully-developed character whose many personality traits are revealed--both good and bad

Crash Examples: __________________________________

a one-sided character who is simply described

Crash Examples: __________________________________

I.

VS.

dynamic

static

II.

a character who changes due to

the course of a story

a character who does not change due to the course

of a story

Ex:

Ex:

FLAT

ROUND

DYNAMICSTATIC

CLASSIFY THE FOLLOWING: Draw a line connecting each scenario to the correct label

Gerald is compassionate towards his brother, but a bully on his baseball team.

Sally is a great athlete; she practices a lot.

In the beginning, Harold was rude, but he became much easier to work with after his boss talked with him.

Throughout the entire war, Beatrice remained loyal to her country.

Casey was determined to win the state championship, so she remained faithful to her team and diligent in her workouts.

Charles’ grades drop when he spends too much time playing video games, but when he is diligent in his studying, they come back up.

THEME

What is a theme?

A. Theme - The main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work. A theme may be stated or implied. A major theme is an idea the author returns to time and again. It becomes one of the most important ideas in the story. [It’s the answer to this question: What is this all about?]

B. Themes v. Subjects - The subject is the topic on which an author has chosen to write. The theme, however, makes some statement about or expresses some opinion on that topic.

*For example, the subject of a story might be war while the theme might be the idea that war is useless.

C. Theme Statement is your one sentence summary of what the author of the work (novel, story, poem, play) has to say about an overall theme

*For example: A theme of the movie Beauty and the Beast is that a person should never judge a person by his outward appearance.

http://www.leasttern.com/LitTerms/literary_terms.htm

D. How do I find the theme?

Step 1: Find the “big ideas” or theme topics.

Step 2: Find out what the characters do and say that relates to those theme topics.

*Watch for: repeated words or ideas, changes in characters, plot events or dialogue, and symbols

Step 3: Come up with a theme statement of the author’s point or message about the topic.

Common theme topics: childhood growing up loyalty self-reliance courage hate nature success death hope patience trust faith identity patriotism truth family independence prejudice unhappiness freedom justice race relations friendship love self-improvement violence war

Pick two topics from the box to the right and create Crash related theme statements.