Where in the World?
Where Watson had a medical practice before meeting Sherlock Holmes.
What is San Francisco?
One type of rhetorical appeal
What are Logos, Pathos, or Ethos?
Lady Petruskin's jewels which may have a pungent odor from this hiding place.
What are pickle jars?
The longest part of the narrative arc, it contains the suspenseful events.
What is the rising action?
Lady Eva Blackwell
Who is Charles Augustus Milverton?
An infamous "rest home" for women
What is Dr. Henry Staunton's Private Rest Homes for Ladies?
What happens when the reader is told directly what a character is like.
What is direct characterization?
A valuable medieval codex dating from the 15th Century
The codex was hidden in Vamberry's wine bottles by Evers, the clerk.
The high point of the plot; when this occurs, a reader knows the narrative's outcome.
What is the climax?
A crime that Holmes, along with the rest of Victorian England, hated more than anything.
What is blackmail?
Jefferson Hope meets John Ferrier and Lucy in this "arid desert" and "lonely place."
What is Salt Lake City? What is Utah?
What is an unreliable narrator?
"The Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle"
The innards of a Christmas goose
This plot point contains background information.
What is the exposition?
Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope
Who is Eduardo Lucas? (He said that he would return my letter if I would bring him a certain document...1056
Sherlock hoped Watson would return to Baker Street after hearing the story of "The Woman from ...." this British town.
What is Lambeth?
A complete
list of all outside sources used to
write your essay. It gives your reader
important information about the
sources mentioned in your
parenthetical citations.
What is a Works Cited page, MLA format?
"A diamond brooch passed on from Mrs. Sherman's mother went missing." Jack O' the Devil and Plaid Charlie had something to do with it.
What is a "stuffed bird" that is part of the "Magical Menagerie?"
This gets "the story started;" the first important narrative action.
What is the inciting event?
The King of Bohemia
Who is Irene Adler? She is a potential blackmailer.
Dangerous leeches may be breeding in this English body of water.
What is the Thames River?
The genre of writing that involves letters and diary entries, and now more modern formats, like texts, emails, and blog posts.
What is epistolary writing?
"A letter from a certain foreign potentate" goes missing from a British dispatch box of secret documents.
It is found under the floor/rug in Eduardo Lucas's residence on Godolphin Street. Returned to the dispatch box.
This is the last part of the narrative arc, and it ties up the plot's loose ends.
What is the resolution?
Lady Violet Gaskell
Who is blackmailing Lady Violet Gaskell?