Describe a story with allegory

A story with two parallel and consistent levels of meaning.

What is Personification?

Gives inanimate objects or abstracs life or human characteristics

familiar historical cultural, literary or biblical text

What is a round character?

One that is well developed and is responsive to action.

Describe the characteristics of a story with allusion

Familiar historical, cultural, literary or biblical texts

Dramatic irony is ...

When the audience is more aware of what is happening than a character.

What is foreshadowing?

Introduction early in a story that hints of events to come.

What is the crisis in a story?

The peak in the story's action or moment of serious tension.

What does allegory refer to?

A story with two parallel and consistent levels of meaning

What is the purpose of a story's exposition?

Sets the story in motion, establishes the scene.

A story that is central to a culture; embodies values of that culture.

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1
Describe a story with allegory
A story with two parallel and consistent levels of meaning.
All of the answers
A story that is central to a culture.
Familiar historical, cultural, literary or biblical texts
2
What is Personification?
Familiar, historical, cultural or literal text
Gives inanimate objects or abstracs life or human characteristics
None of the answers.
Two parallel and consistent levels of meaning 1) figurative; 1) literal
3
What is an allusion?
familiar historical cultural, literary or biblical text
All of the answers
A story that is central to a culture
A story with two parallel and consistent levels of meaning
4
What is a Flat or Static Character?
Barely developed
All the answers
Stereotypical
One or two personality traits
5
Who is the main character in "This is what it means to say Phoenix AZ?"
Norma
Kathy
Thomas Builds-the-Fire
Victor
6
What is a round character?
A barely developed characters who is closely involved in he story.
A stereotypical charcter.
A character that reveals only one or two personality traits.
One that is well developed and is responsive to action.
7
Describe the characteristics of a story with allusion
A story that is central to a culture.
Familiar historical, cultural, literary or biblical texts
A story with two parallel and consistent levels of meaning.
None of the answers
8
A character is a fictional representative of a person with realistic depiction.
False
True
9
What is the historical setting of The Things They Carried?
1960s-1970s Vietnam War
1950s San Francisco Earthquake
1930s Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots
None of the above
10
Dramatic irony is ...
When the audience is more aware of what is happening than a character.
All of the answers
The use of words to mean something different than what they appear to mean.
The difference between what is expected to happen and what actually happens
11
What features should a reader look for in determining the theme of a story?
The arrangement of of events in the story
All of the answers
The title of the story
The story's central conflict
12
What is foreshadowing?
Basic information, sets the story in motion, establishes the scene.
Introduction early in a story that hints of events to come.
The end of a story
A moment of considerable tension or importance in a story.
13
Why is it advantageous for writers to use first-person narrators?
Restricted view can create irony
More convincing
Answers red and blue
Easier to write in the first person
14
A "dynamic" character grows and changes in the story.
False
True
15
What is the crisis in a story?
The resolution or denouement.
When the writer introduces the characters.
The peak in the story's action or moment of serious tension.
The beginning of the story, sets it in motion.
16
A flashback is used to examine events that took place earlier in a character's life.
False
True
17
What are the characteristics of Formal Diction?
All the answers are correct
Elaborate complex sentenes
Learned vocabulary
Serious and objective
18
What does allegory refer to?
A story that is central to a culture
Familiar historical, cultural, literary or biblical text
None of the answers
A story with two parallel and consistent levels of meaning
19
What type of character is Jim in "Big Black Good Man?"
Static
Happy
Round
Sad
20
What is the purpose of a story's exposition?
Resolution or Denouement
Sets the story in motion, establishes the scene.
Peak in the story's action
Introduce new characters
21
Describe a myth
Familiar historical, cultural, literary or biblical texts
A story with two parallel and consistent levels of meaning.
A story that is central to a culture; embodies values of that culture.
22
Metaphors and similies are figures of speech that compare dissimilar items.
True
False
23
What is the final stage of a plot?
The story is set in motion.
The peak in a story's action.
The characters are finally introduced.
The solution or denouement.

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