Literary Signposts & Academic Vocab

What best describes the Tough Question signpost?

• When a character does something unexpected

• When another older/wiser character gives the main character advice

• When a character asks themselves a difficult question

• When a character realizes, understands, or figures something out

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Which signpost describes when a character does something unexpected?

• Contrast and Contradiction

• Aha Moment

• Words of the Wiser

• Memory Moment

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Describe the signpost: Aha Moment

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What best describes the Words of the Wiser signpost?

• A word, phrase, object, situation, or idea that is mentioned over and over

• When another older/wiser character gives the main character advice

• When a character does something unexpected, literary signpost

• When the author interrupts what’s happening in the story to show us the main character as he/she remembers something important

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Which signpost describes a word, phrase, object, situation, or idea that is mentioned over and over?

• Aha Moment

• Tough Question

• Contrast and Contradiction

• Again and Again

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What is a synonym for the Memory Moment signpost?

• Rewind

• Words of the Wiser

• Flashback

• Aha

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Select what creates the setting:

• Time Period

• Number of Characters

• Place

• Mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is characterization?

• The way an author creates a character by explicitly stating aspects of his/her personality and appearance or by revealing aspects of a character through their actions, thoughts, speech, or other characters.

• The time and place of a story.

• The character who opposes the protagonist or the goals of the protagonist

• The element of plot structure that develops the conflict through a series of events to build interest and/or suspense and leads up to the climax

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Select the parts of a story chart:

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is the rising action of a story?

• The highest point in the plot where the problem/conflict reaches its peak

• The element of plot structure that develops the conflict through a series of events to build interest and/or suspense and leads up to the climax

• A brief interruption in the plot that describes an past event or time in order to help explain current events in the story

• The element of plot structure that takes place after the climax and begins to resolve the conflicts of the story before the resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5