Plot Stages
What part of the story introduces the character and setting?
exposition
The clock ticked loudly as I waited his arrival.
What type of imagery
sounds
What does weaving mean in this sentence.
"In the evenings he sat by our beds weaving folktales like vivid little scarves."
a. making
b. telling
c. showing
b. telling
Based on the first stanza, what can you infer about how the author's father feels about figs?
They are his favorite fruit.
What part of the story shows the build up to the climax?
Her hair smelled of lavender.
What type of imagery
smell
What does half-heartly mean in this sentence?
He tended garden half-heartly, forgot to water, let the okra get too big.
without much effort
What can you infer about the father in My Father and the Figtree?
He loves fresh figs
He misses his home country
The story has reached the highest point of conflict and is starting to be resolved. What is that called?
falling action
As I gazed upon the sunset a bird flew over head.
What type of imagery?
sight
What does plucking mean in this sentence?
It's a figtree song!" he said, plucking his fruits like ripe tokens, emblems, assurance of a world that was always his own.
picking
What can you infer about how the author felt when she tried her first fig?
"At age six I ate a dried fig and shrugged."
It wasn't that fantastic.
The point in the story when everything is figured out.
Resolution
My stomach clenched as I turned away in pain.
What type of imagery.
The highest point of the story.
Climax
She gave me the a look with daggers in her eyes and I felt the pit of my stomach drop in fear.
What two forms of imagery?
touch, sight