Mood, Theme, Conflict, Plot, Flashback, Figurative Language

Callie McCarthy

Do Now

1. Get a buddy/partner and both share a both a time where you had a fight with someone. (it can be anyone)

2. Explain to your partner why that made you mad, sad, or angry.

3. Then tell your partner what you did to solve that fight.

Conflict• Conflict- Clash or struggle between opposing forces.• Conflict can be Person vs Person, Person vs Self, Person vs Nature,

Person vs Fate, and Person vs Society • Person vs Person: problem with anouther person• Person vs Self: problem with deciding what to do or think• Person vs Nature: problem with a force of nature• Person vs fate: problem with what seems to be uncontrolable • Person vs Society: problem with laws or beliefs of a group of

people • Internal: Involves a struggle between a character and his inner self• External: involves a struggle between a character and a force

outside of him self

Identifying Conflict

• As we watch the following clip try to identify the type of conflict.

• http://www.wingclips.com/movie-clips/how-the-grinch-stole-christmas/i-hate-christmas

• The conflict in “I hate Christmas” is _____________________________________

Do you know your conflicts?

• http://www.quia.com/cc/2364745.html

Theme

• Theme: universal massage, what you take from the another, what the story teaches you.

• The theme is something you could say to anyone in the world at any time, date, or year and it would make since to them

• Example: Treat others the way you want to be treated

Identifying Theme• Remember that theme is something that you can tell anyone

anywhere in the world at any date time or year and it would make since to them.

• Activity: get a partner and discuss the theme for The Three Little Pigs (if you have not read the The Three Little Pigs think of a book you and your partner both read)

• http://vimeo.com/6102250

• http://vimeo.com/6102250• The theme in the clip you just watched is ______________________________ ____________

Figurative Language• Metaphor: comparison. Ex: The goalkeeper was a rock

• Simile: comparison using the words like or as. Ex: Her hair was like gold

She swims like a fish.

He's as hairy as a gorilla.

Peter laughs like a hyena

Allow me, it's as easy as ABC

Mr. John is as wise as an owl. Education is

your passport to satisfying employment.

He was a lion in the fight.

The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas

He was a tornado, blasting his way through the opposing team.

My love is a red, red rose

Simile Metaphor

There are metaphors and similes in songs to!

• There are many similes and metaphors in this song; can you identify them?

http://www.mtv.com/videos/katy-perry/591991/firework.jhtml#artist=3274550

http://www.mtv.com/videos/bruno-mars/558837/just-the-way-you-are.jhtml#artist=3528710

http://www.mtv.com/videos/the-click-five/52803/just-the-girl.jhtml#artist=1938307

Plot

• Exposition: Beginning of story• Rising Action: Events that move story forward• Climax: Most emotional part of the story• Falling Action: Events leading to the end• Resolution: Conflict is resolved

Exposition

Risin

g Acti

on

Climax

Falling Action

Resolution

Identifying plot• http://vimeo.com/6102250

Mood

• Mood: Feeling created in the reader which is evoked through the language of the text (how it makes you feel

• Examples: Happy, sad, joyful, hurt, scared, depressed, any feeling

• http://www.wingclips.com/movie-clips/how-the-grinch-stole-christmas/i-hate-christmas

Flash Back

• Flash Back: A jump back in time setting will change.

• http://www.wingclips.com/movie-clips/the-rosa-parks-story/arrested

• When did the flash back occur?• What did the flash back go back to?

Lets Test Your Skills

• http://www.quia.com/cc/2365555.html

THANK YOU!!!