Vocabulary
Bringing up feelings of revulsion, or wanting to barf.
What is repulsive?
Who is Will.
Meet the characters, setting and background information
What is the Exposition?
The central idea in a text or the lesson.
What is theme?
Where the dad went at the end of the story?
What is a motel?
Injure or kill someone by electric shock
What is electrocuted?
The antagonist of the story.
Who is Coily?
highest point of tension or drama
What is the Climax?
The main idea of "For Pete's Snake".
What is Fear or Phobia?
Will realizes that Coily wasn't a "he" but a "she" when he sees these small creatures slithering up his bed.
What are baby snakes? (Coily's babies)
The narrator's sister, Pete, is described using this term for someone who is clumsy and often breaks things, mostly her bones.
What is a klutz?
Character that tends to gets hurt and goes to the hospital a lot.
Who is Petra or Pete?
A memory or information about a character's past.
What is flashback?
The character with the phobia.
Who is Will?
The events of the story take place during this specific summer holiday weekend.
What is the Fourth of July weekend?
To do something without thinking; automatically.
What is instinctively?
The character that Will called first.
Who is Josh?
A tense feeling created by the author.
What is suspense?
A theme related to "fears".
What is "it's difficult to face your fears"?
Popular cartoon Josh was watching
What is Popeye the Sailor man?
Stands out as unusual or strange.
What is exotic?
The character who Will hoped was being barbequed.
Who is Dennis?
This phase of the story covers all of Will's failed attempts to leave the house and his growing terror after discovering the jagged rip in Coily's tank screen.
What is rising action?
A theme related to compassion.
What is "have compassion for those with fears or phobias"?
What is Hound Dog?