2. Today’s Awesome Thing is…
forgetting to set your alarm, but miraculously waking up at the right time!

3. Stuff We Know! Literary Devices: imagery simile metaphor irony
personification
hyperbole
onomatopoeia
foreshadowing
Literary Terms:
plot structure
Exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
Conflict (a lil’ bit)

4. Characters! PROTAGONIST ANTAGONIST The main character of a story
Eckels
ANTAGONIST
Whoever opposes the protagonist
Travis

5. Types of Characters ROUND FLAT Complex character who
displays many traits
FLAT
Simple character who
displays one or two traits

6. Character Types DYNAMIC STATIC Character who changes over time
Character who does not
change over time

7. Conflict! Conflict can be… INTERNAL EXTERNAL
struggle within a character’s mind
Eckles’s desire to hunt versus his crippling fear of the dinosaur
EXTERNAL
struggle between character and outside force
Eckles versus Travis
Eckles versus the
dinosaur

8. Types of Conflict MAN VS. MAN MAN VS. SELF External
Characters against one another
Eckles vs. Travis
MAN VS. SELF
Internal
Character struggles in own mind
emotions, right vs. wrong, mental
illness, etc.
Eckles vs. himself and his fear

9. Types of Conflict MAN VS. NATURE MAN VS. SOCIETY External
Character overcomes natural
obstacle or condition
Eckles vs. the dinosaur
MAN VS. SOCIETY
Character disagrees with
accepted ways of thinking
or doing things in society
Eckles vs. the new future