Pbi Narrative Final

Front 1

Give the definition of Plot

Back 1

Plot is the intentional sequencing of the movement of a story from beginning to middle to end as the story revolves around a goal, a conflict or series of conflicts and the resolution thereof.

Front 2

Give the definition of Plot Goal

Back 2

The Plot Goal is the intended outcome of the story.

Front 3

Answer, “What are the five questions one can ask to discern the Plot Goal?”

Back 3

Where is the story going? What tension needs to be resolved in this passage? what is it that is at stake in this passage? From the opening scenes of the story, how would one expect this story to unravel and end? what should the reader expect to be achieved, completed, found or understood?

Front 4

Give the definition of Plot Conflict(s)

Back 4

The Plot Conflict(s) is/are the hurdles, obstacles, interruptions, or changes that take place in a story to keep the plot goal from coming to immediate fulfillment.

Front 5

Answer, “What are five questions one can ask to discern the Plot Conflict(s)?”

Back 5

What tension needs to be resolved in the passage? What do the characters in question need to overcome to achieve the positive intended outcome of the story? what takes place in this passage that prevents the goal from being achieved immediately? what do the characters in the story fail to overcome and so experience a negative outcome of the story?

Front 6

Give the definition of Plot Resolution(s)

Back 6

The Plot Resolution is the outcome(s) of the story and how it/they come about.

Front 7

Answer, “What are two questions one can ask to discern the Plot Resolution(s)?”

Back 7

what outcomes were there to the story and how did the outcomes occur

Front 8

Explain how to state the plot statement?

Back 8

Character's (goal) "to" (intention) in conflict with (obstacle) is resolved by (resolutions).

Front 9

Complete the Definition of Subject

Back 9

1) The subject is the most talked about idea in a P/T; 2) It is the idea in a P/T that unifies all of the other ideas;3) It generally appears near the beginning of a P/T (in order for the rest of the P/T to makes sense.

Front 10

Complete the Definition of Compliment

Back 10

The complement is "what the author says about what he is talking about" or the "subject." It is the idea that completes the thought begun by the author in the subject as the flow of the P/T continues to develops.

Front 11

How to formulate a big idea

Back 11

the "Big Idea" is the one main idea that most closely expresses the author's intended meaning for the entire P/T portion in one complete sentence. That sentence is made of a subject and a complement.

Front 12

1 - God's Will in Creation (Decree)

Back 12

it was God's intention in Creation for the earth to be a place of mediatorial rule, population, and rest for man, as man enjoyed God and respected the limitations toward evil.

Front 13

2 - God's Permissive Will to Allow Evil (Evil)

Back 13

God has allowed evil to enter into His creation to accomplish his purposed on the earth.

Front 14

3 - God's Prescriptive Will to Judge Evil
(Judgment)

Back 14

In order for God's original purposes to be achieved - to rule over and through man in blessing, evil be restrained and eventually vanquished

Front 15

4 - God's Prescriptive Will to Deliver Some from the Judgment of Evil (Deliverance)

Back 15

If God will have subjects over and through which to rule, He must spare some from judgment. These are known as the elect

Front 16

5 - God's Prescriptive Will to Bless those Delivered from the Judgment of Evil (Blessing)

Back 16

God has determined to bless those delivered -- the elect -- in line with the original intent in Creation, For man's good, to the glory of God and the joy of man forever.