Language Arts Flashcards
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Contrasts and contradictions (QUESTION)
Why is the character doing this?
Aha moment (QUESTION)
How might this change things?
Tough questions (QUESTION)
What does this question make me wonder?
Words of the wiser (QUESTION)
What is the life lesson and how might this affect the character?
Again and again (QUESTION)
Why does this keep happening again and again?
Memory moment (QUESTION)
Why might this memory be important?
Contrasts and contradictions (DEFINITION)
A sharp contrast of what we would expect the character doing and what we observe the character doing.
Aha moment (DEFINITION)
A sudden realization that something shifts in a characters actions
Tough questions (DEFINITION)
Questions characters raise that reveal their inner struggles
Words of the wiser (DEFINITION)
The advice or insights about life that a wiser character is usually older and offers to the main character
Again and again (DEFINITION)
Events, images, or particular words that recur over the course of the story
Memory moment (DEFINITION)
A recollection by a character that interrupts the forward progress of the story
Truisms (DEFINITION)
A statement that is always true
What do you avoid in truisms?
Telling what to do
