Warrior Words
A story that is told in sequential order with a clear beginning, middle, and end.
What is a linear plot?
Jerry gets to the entrance to the tunnel after these 3 things:
witnessing the boys, training his breath control, practicing swimming down the edge
What is the tragic event that transpires in the life of the Seventh Man?
What literary device is present in the exposition of the story, before Rainsford falls off the boat?
foreshadowing: Ship-Trap island, dangerous game being on this island, potential cannibals, etc.
alter the following word with a prefix or suffix to describe a story that does not meet your expectation: climatic
anticlimatic
Provide an example of when someone may have a "premonition"
Up to Mrs. Freeman's judgment.
What lesson has Jerry learned at the end of the story?
He does not need approval from others, and he can accomplish difficult things.
What did K like to do in his free time?
Paint, particularly landscapes of the ocean.
Name one of the traps that Rainsford sets up for Zaroff.
Term to describe the atmosphere or feelings associated with a story.
Mood.
When we pray to God, we may often find ourselves in _______________.
Supplication
What happens when Jerry is swimming through the tunnel?
He gets a bloody nose and begins to lose consciousness
What is the Seventh Man's response to witnessing K's death? (the immediate days/weeks that follow)
He feels guilty in his grief as he thinks he could have saved K from the wave.
What is Zaroff's motivation behind the game?
He wants a more challenging prey to hunt, he likes to hunt humans because they have the ability to reason.
What is the term for the highest point of tension within a story?
climax
beseeching
Jerry's reasons for training himself to swim through the tunnel...
prove himself to himself, conquer feelings of shame
What is the most important discovery the Seventh Man makes when he returns to his hometown?
He realizes that K's death was not his fault and that K may have died doing the thing he loves the most.
Why does Zaroff tell Rainsford to avoid death swamp?
He wants to have a greater challenge and doesn't want Rainsford to make a simple mistake.
Identify all stages of a Plot Diagram.
exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
Explain the difference between denotation and connotation and provide an example of 2 words with similar denotations and different connotations.
Up to Mrs. Freeman's judgment.
What is the most important effect of the author's description of Jerry's panic when the boys do no quickly come up from underwater?
It shows the difficulty of gettng help if something goes wrong.
What does the Seventh Man think about fear?
fear is something we cannot avoid, we must acknowledge and face our fears or else we will be consumed by them.
He ultimately kills Zaroff after not wanting to kill a human being.
What is necessary for a plot to be considered nonlinear?
A change in time, setting, or point of view. Often through a flashback or jump forward in the transition from the frame story to the interior story.