Signpost Review Game

What is a signpost?

• A moment in a story where the main character learns how to answer questions deeply
• A sign giving information such as the direction and distance to a nearby town, typically found at a crossroads
• A sign giving directions
• A moment in a story that may give clues about the theme, conflict, and may foreshadow a future event

What is a Contrast and Contradiction?

• When a character does something that is opposite to their actions they have been doing all along
• Why is the character doing that?
• I donut know
• When a character does something the same as what they have been doing 

What is the anchor question for an Aha! Moment?

• Why might this moment be important?
• How does this change things?
• Why might the character act this way?
• Is dinner ready yet?

What is a memory moment?

• When the character remembers where he left his keys
• When the author interrupts the flow of the story to tell about a memory
• When the character eats his dinner
• When the character interrupts a memory to tell the reader about the story

What is the anchor question for a Contrast and Contradiction?

• Why might this memory be important?
• Why did the character eat this?
• Why is the character doing this?
• How might this change things?

True or False: A contrast is the same as a contradiction

• True
• False

What is a contrast?

• When a character does something against what they would normally do.
• When a character does something that goes against what their group would usually do

What is a contradiction?

• When a character does something that goes against what their group would usually do
• When a character does something against what they would normally do.

What is an Aha! Moment?

• When the reader realizes something about the main character
• When the character suddenly realizes something about the story
• When the character shouts, "AHA!"
• When the reader learns an important life lesson from an older character.

What is the anchor question for a Words of the Wiser moment?

• What is the life lesson and how did the character forget it?
• Who taught the character this lesson?
• Why did the character learn this?
• What's the life lesson and how might it affect the character?