Characters
Plot Structure
Literary Terms
Vocabulary
Events
100
This man owns a store and gave Billy some candy.
Who is Billy's grandpa?
100
The design the majority of plotlines follow.
What is the plot curve?
100
A figure of speech Wilson Rawls uses often. It compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as."
What is a similie?
100
Another name for a raccoon. Hint* answer is NOT coon.
What is a ringtail?
100
The price each dog ended up costing Billy.
What is $20?
200
This woman worries about Billy and makes sure he eats.
Who is Billy's mama?
200
The high point of the story; the turning point of the story.
What is the climax?
200
A technique Wilson Rawls uses in Where the Red Fern Grows by having the older Billy tell the story of when he was younger.
What is a flashback?
200
A sandbar lying just below the surface of a waterway.
What is a riffle?
200
The character that was slightly injured when Billy trapped his first raccoon.
Who is Old Dan?
300
This little darling is awfully clever.
Who is Little Ann?
300
The part of the plot curve in Chapter 8 that leads up to the dogs treeing their first coon.
What is the rising action?
300
All of the events of the story, how they happen, and in order.
What is plot?
300
A slender flexible stick used for spanking.
What is a switch.
300
The name of the object Billy saved his money in.
What is a KC Baking Powder can?
400
This man lives in Tahlequah and knows Billy's father.
Who is the stationmaster?
400
The part of the story that wraps up and concludes the conflits and complications.
What is the resolution?
400
The genre Where the Red Fern Grows falls under.
What is realistic fiction?
400
To call forth or summon, as in courage.
What is muster?
400
The reason Billy wanted to chop the Big Tree down and wouldn't let his dad help him.
What is because he had an agreement with his dogs and didn't want to let them down?
500
This person brought Billy a lunch bucket.
Who is Billy's oldest little sister?
500
Chapter 1 of the book exhibits this first part of the plot curve, where the older Billy is sets up the rest of the novel.
What is the exposition?
500
Wilson Rawls burned this 20 years before he finished and published Where the Red Fern Grows.
What is his rough draft?
500
A loud, harsh cry.
What is squall?
500
The contraption Billy flew out of at the school playground.
What is a fire escape?
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