For your chosen concept,
please complete at least one of each of the following:
- clear, understandable definitions
- examples from a familiar children's story (like a fairy
tale)
- examples from a work studied in high school
- examples from a popular movie, TV show, or other work
- some sort of graphic illustration to help us remember
the concepts (this may be incorporated with an example or examples)
Concepts:
- conflict (discuss all four types)
- plot (discuss exposition, rising action, climax,
falling action, & resolution)
- making connections (discuss juxtaposition, foreshadowing, flashback, and allusion)
- point of view (discuss the three major types)
- irony (discuss the three major types & paradoxes)
- characterization (discuss implicit vs. explicit as well
as static vs. dynamic characters and round vs. flat)
- thematic elements (theme, motif, & symbols,
archetypes)
- author's craft (genre, mood, imagery, &
syntax)
- diction (connotation vs. denotation, oxymoron, &
pun)
- figurative language (discuss simile, metaphor,
personification, & hyperbole)
- sound devices (alliteration, onomatopoeia, slant rhyme,
& true rhyme)
