Literary Analysis
Fiction
Plot Elements of Greyling
Greyling
Vocabulary
100
man v. man, man v. nature, man v. society, man v. himself
What is conflict?
100
a message about life.
What is theme?
100
Greyling visits his parents once a year to tell them tales of the sea.
What is the denouement?
100
beside the sea
What is the location of "Greyling?"
100
completely fixing something
What is rebuilding?
200
exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement
What are the elements of plot?
200
the name of the story
What is title?
200
Greyling dives into the sea to try to save his father.
What is the climax?
200
man v. himself
What is the main conflict in "Greyling?"
200
extremely shocked or surprised
What is stunned?
300
made up people or animals
What are characters?
300
location, time
What is the setting?
300
A fisherman and his wife live by the sea long ago. They want to have a baby.
What is the exposition?
300
love and letting go
What is the theme of "Greyling?"
300
be gotten rid of
What is slough?
400
first person/third person
What is point of view?
400
the point of view where the narrator is a character in the story
What is first person?
400
The townspeople think Greyling has drowned.
What is falling action?
400
because he had grey hair and grey eyes
Why was the boy named Greyling?
400
shiny and smooth
What is sleek?
500
the person who writes the story
What is author?
500
It contains imaginary people and animals, and is a story that has at least one part of it being not real or true.
What is fiction?
500
Greyling longs for the sea but obeys his parents and does not enter it.
What is rising action?
500
Jane Yolen
Who is the author of "Greyling?"
500
rolled and tilted
What is wallowed?
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