This is the person or force that is working against the protagonist.

What is imagery? Give an example.

Who or what was the antagonist in “By the Waters of Babylon?”

Define situational irony.

Give an example of situational irony.

Name one of the Reading Signposts and the question you ask with it.

In this point of view, the narrator knows everything about all the characters, almost as if he were godlike.

What is third person limited point of view?

What P.O.V. is used here? She was so frightened by the bump in the night. She wondered if her sister was afraid, too.

She was so frightened by the bump in the night, but her sister knew it was just the wind.

I was so frightened by the bump in the night, but I don’t think my sister was.

Name one of the Reading Signposts and the question you ask with it.

What is indirect characterization?

What is direct characterization?

Is this direct or indirect characterization? My English teacher is so boring.

What kind of characterization is this? Today my English teacher read the dictionary to us for the whole period.

Name one of the Reading Signposts and the question you ask with it.

This kind of story has a literal and symbolic meaning.

Name the allegory that we read in class.

What kind of irony is this? Why?

This is the meaning of a story, what the writer is saying about life or about people.

Which is the theme of the story “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant?” A. Don’t make a fool of yourself! B. A boy chooses a girl over a fish. C. Love can make people do foolish things.

What is an allusion?

Give an example of an allusion.

This part of the plot presents the characters and the basic situation.

Explain the difference between an internal conflict and an external conflict.

Give an example of situational irony from the story “The Chaser.”

What is dramatic irony?

Give an example of dramatic irony.

What is verbal irony?

Give an example of verbal irony.

Give an example of first person point of view.

This point of view is sometimes called the video camera. Name the point if view and explain why it is called this.

This kind of character changes and grows over the course of the story

Name a dynamic character in a story we have read this term.

Define archetype and give an example.

Name Aristotle’s first step in a tragedy.

Name Aristotle’s second step in a tragedy.

What is the third step in a tragedy?

What is the last step in a tragedy?

What was Marilyn Cross’s character flaw (her hamartia)?

What kind of irony is this? Why?

What is the climax in the story “The Masque of the Red Death?”

What kind of irony is this? Why?

Name the allusion.

Name a movie that is a hero quest, and show how two of the steps are shown in the movie.

Name two more steps in the hero quest archetype that are shown in a particular movie.

What kind of irony is this? “Gee,” said Marcus, “I’m really going to miss school while I’m on Fall Break.”

Define round character.

Name a round character (that has not already been named) from a story we have read.

Define Flat Character.

Name an example of a flat character from a movie.

Show how the By the Waters of Babylon fulfills at least three steps of a hero quest.