Literary Elements
Plot
Characters
Parts of the Plot
Vocabulary
100
the interruption of the chronological order of a story
What is a flashback?
100
Because he thinks he sees ghosts approaching
What is the reason in "The Open Window" Framton runs out of the house.
100
finds out a devastating secret about her father
Who is the narrator of "The Book of the Dead?"
100
time, place, of a story, including the customs, beliefs and values of that time
What is the setting?
100
quiet and restrained in style of manner; calm
What is sedate?
200
a writer's use of clues to hint at events that will happen later in a story
What is foreshadowing?
200
Because the mines had run out of gold or had none at all
What is the reason that the community in "The Californian's Tale" was deserted?
200
the actress who wants to buy the sculpture in "The Book of the Dead?"
Who is Gabrielle Fontaneau?
200
the falling action or final outcome of a story
What is the resolution?
200
an illness
What is an infirmity?
300
contrast between what is expected and what actually happens
What is irony?
300
to sell her first sculpture to a television star
Why is the narrator in "The Book of the Dead" in Florida?
300
Creates a story to upset Framton Nuttel in "The Open Window"?
Who is Vera?
300
the most exciting moment in a story
What is the climax?
300
a tract of open, rolling, wild land, often having marshes
What are moors?
400
the reader has information that the characters do not have
What is dramatic irony?
400
why the father in "The Book of the Dead" has nightmares
What is the fact that he was a prison guard and tortured prisoners?
400
had been an abused prisoner in Haiti
Who is Mr. Fontaneua?
400
the beginning of a story in which the characters, setting, and background is introduced
What is the exposition?
400
likely to happen soon
What is imminent?
500
The following is an example of this. "There was no hint in that photograph of what had once happened to the father [Mr. Fontenue] ."
What is situational irony?
500
Because he didn't want to have a "heavy heart" when he enters the next world
Why did the narrator's father in "The Book of the Dead" throw the sculpture into the water?
500
Opened her home to Framton Nuttel in "The Open Window?"
Who is Mrs. Sappleton?
500
after the introduction of the conflict, the story becomes more complicated as events unfold
What is the rising action?
500
the state of being open to harm, damage, or illness
What is vulnerability?
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