Story Elements
Context Clues
Plot
Figurative Language
Lagniappe
100
This is the genre of literature to which Hatchet belongs. (hint: check the wall)
What is realistic fiction?
100
The abbreviation C.P.R. means this. (see p. 14)
What is mouth-to-mouth and push their chests?
100
This is "The Secret". (See Chapter 7)
What is Brian saw his mother kissing a blond man in their station wagon?
100
"I would kill, he thought suddenly, for a book of matches." (p. 91)
What is hyperbole?
100
This is the shape of the lake near where Brian landed.
What is L-shaped?
200
This is the setting of the first chapter.
What is a Cessna 406, bushplane during the day time?
200
This is what the world "altimeter" means.
What is the device that tells the height above the ground?
200
This is where Brian was going for the summer.
What is to visit his father in Canada?
200
"Mmmm-maaa" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is onamatopeia?
200
This is a word meaning small twigs used to start a fire.
What is tinder or kindling? (p. 87)
300
This phrase means the time during which a child may vist his father. (see page 6)
What are visitation rights?
300
This is the meaning of visualize. (p. 24)
What is to see? ("He'd seen on television.")
300
This is the first food Brian eats.
What are gut cherries?
300
This is what Brian described smelling on p. 79-80.
What is a porcupine?
300
This is what entered Brian's leg when he had an unexpected visitor in Chapter 8.
What are porcupine quills?
400
This is the immediate conflict (or problem) Brian experiences in Chapter 1.
What is he is in a roaring plain with no pilot, and he is alone?
400
This is the meaning of channel on page 28.
What is a wide open place?
400
This is the second food that Brian eats?
What are raspberries?
400
Ths is what Brian did to the water after he saw his reflection. (p. 69)
What is slapped the water?
500
This is the point of view from which this story is written.
What is third person limited point of view?
500
This is the meaning of remnants on page 36.
What are torn pieces?
500
This is the food source that Brian discovers near the water.
What are turtle eggs?
500
This is how Brian knew it was almost noon. (p. 76)
What is the sun was almost straight overhead?
500
"Two years before he and Terry had been fooling around down near the park, where the city seemed to end for a time and the trees grew thick and came down tot he small river that went through the park" is an example of this sort of literary device.
What is flash back?
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