Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Characters
Setting
Plot
(Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution)
Theme
Conflict
Point of View
Characters
Ebenezer Scrooge
from Charles Dickens's
A Christmas Carol
Dynamic and Round
Dynamic or Static
Round or Flat
Robin
from Batman
Static and Round
Setting
Examples
From Where the Red Fern Grows -
Billy and his dogs are attacked by a mountain
lion, and they must do everything they can to
survive.
From Weasel -
Nathan is captured by Weasel, an Indian fighter.
Earlier in the book, Weasel had attacked
Nathan's pa, had taken away Pa’s riffle, and had
killed the farm animals.
Person vs. Self
Examples
From Weasel
Nathan spends the winter months struggling
with his conscious. Should he go back to
Weasel’s cabin to seek revenge or forget
about Weasel?
Person vs. the Environment
Example:
From Where the Red Fern Grows -
Little Ann and Old Dan tree a coon in the tallest tree
in the river bottoms.
From Where the Red Fern Grows -
Billy enters the championship coon hunt and
encounters the snowstorm.
Person vs. Technology
Answer Key
Theme
What is the theme of the story "The Lion and the Mouse?"
A. hunter's net cannot hold a lion for long.
B. A mouse is good at chewing things.
C. Lions and mice make good pets.
D. Size doesn't matter when doing a good deed.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (excerpt)
L. Frank BaumDorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with
Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.
Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried by wagon
many miles. There were four walls, a floor and a roof, which made one room;
and this room contained a rusty looking cookstove, a cupboard for the dishes, a
table, three or four chairs, and the beds. Uncle Henry and Aunt Em had a big
bed in one corner, and Dorothy a little bed in another corner.
Survival
Overcoming prejudices
Theme Using Number the Stars