Unit I – The Power of Storytelling
Part 1 – Crisis and Conflict
Part 2 – Suspense and Surprise
Terms: To be handed out first day of unit, for both Parts 1 & 2,
to be recorded in student journals, will be tested on at end of
unit.
Part 1 – Crisis & Conflict
Fiction (text 23-25)
~ Plot: the sequence of events that make up a story
• Exposition: intro characters, setting, problem
• Rising Action
• Climax
• Falling Action (Resolution)
~ Character
• Main & Minor
• Dynamic & Static
~ Setting
~ Theme
More Literary terms used throughout the Part 1:
~ Conflict
• Internal
• External
~ Foreshadowing
~ Inferring (pg 62)
~ Suspense
~ Narrative Nonfiction
~Narrative Poem
Part 2 – Surprise & Suspense
Poetry (text 138-139)
~ Form
• Stanza
~ Sound
• Rhyme
- Internal & End
- Rhyme Scheme
• Rhythm
- Meter
• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Consonance
• Onomatopoeia
~ Speaker
~ Figurative Language
• Personification
• Simile
• Metaphor
~ Imagery
More Literary terms used throughout the Part 2:
~ Irony
• Dramatic
• Verbal
• Situational
~ Allusion
~ Suspense
~ Mood
Text Readings:
The Most Dangerous Game (38) & Games People Probably
Shouldn’t Play (61) [MDG]
The Perfect Storm (112) & The Wreck of the Hesperus (124)
[PS]
The Gift of the Magi (151) & Luxury (158) [GOM]
The Sniper ( 162) & A Respite from ―The Troubles‖ (170)
[SNIPER]
Edgar Allan Poe—Author Study (194), Annabel Lee (198) & The
Cask of Amontillado (207) [POE]
Novels:
Killer’s Cousin
Lord of the Flies