Setting & Location
Characters
Who Said That?
Element of A Short Story
About the Author
100
Street where Patsy Barnes and his mother lived.
Where is DOUGLASS STREET?
100
Name of the mother of Patsy Barnes.
Who is ELIZA?
100
“Honey, mammy ain’ gwine lay hyeah long. She be all right putty soon.”
Who is MRS. BARNES or ELIZA BARNES?
100
The sequence of related events in a story.
What is the PLOT?
100
City and state the author was born in.
Where is DAYTON, OHIO?
200
Place of origin of the Barnes family.
Where is KENTUCKY?
200
The liveryman.
Who is McCARTHY?
200
“Well, take your choice: the bed or the boneyard.”
Who is the DOCTOR?
200
The use of clues by an author to prepare readers for events that will happen in a story.
What is FORESHADOWING?
200
Title of the author's first volume of poetry.
What is OAK AND IVY?
300
Arena of Patsy's pursuits.
Where is the RACING STABLES or FAIRGROUNDS?
300
Character who owned a paddock in Lexington.
Who is Mr. BOONE?
300
“Ye little devil, ye, I’ve a mind to knock the whole head off o’ ye. Ye want harses to exercise, do ye? Well git on that un, ’an’ see what ye kin do with him.”
Who is McCARTHY?
300
An interruption in a chronological narrative that tells about something that happened before that point in the story or before the story even began.
What is FLASHBACK?
300
Where the author's wife was originally from.
Where is NEW ORLEANS?
400
Where Patsy and his mother moved to. The EXACT location.
Where is DALESFORD?
400
Character who owed something to the orphan he had made Patsy Barnes.
Who is BLACK BOY?
400
“Nevah you min’, i can do somep’n’, an’ we’ll have anothah doctah.”
Who is PATSY BARNES?
400
What takes place within the mind of a character.
What is INTERNAL CONFLICT?
400
The year the Dunbars separated.
When is 1902?
500
In a compass, where is Kentucky located?
Where is the SOUTH?
500
Character who shot out ahead under whip and spur, his jockey standing straight in the stirrups.
Who is ESSEX?
500
“He’ll show ’em a thing or two,”
Who is BRACKETT?
500
Events that follow the climax.
What is FALLING ACTION?
500
Illness Dunbar suffered from.
What is TUBERCULOSIS?
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