A fighter, originally someone trained to entertain crowds by fighting to the death.
What is a gladiator?
100
The animal killed at the beginning of the story.
What is a calf?
100
The ocean where the story takes place.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
100
The time of year in the poem "Wild Blackberries."
What is July or summer?
200
Mtron Dean, Rashe Howe, and Mark Hurlburt were these, to name a few.
What are hunters.
200
How the story ends.
What is a homesteader shoots the old rattlesnake.
200
A literary device that refers to events that took place before the action of the main story.
What is a flashback?
200
How the ship sinks.
What are killer whales?
200
The regular arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. Example: I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee.
What is meter?
300
The reason a character in a story behaves the way he does.
What is the character's motivation?
300
Two reasons the main character kills.
What is for food and self-preservation?
300
The resolution of the story.
What is Alben talking to his mother and sister and finally being able to smile.
300
The five steps in a plot diagram in order.
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution?
300
"Cats, when they jump, are sleek
As a grape slipping its skin" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
400
Old Mahogany's reward for escaping from the dogs.
What is a pair of partridges and sound sleep.
400
The protagonist of the story.
Who is Crotalus?
400
Four things that happen during the rising action of the story.
What is Alben shoots and misses the panther, Alben leaves the front door open, he realizes that the panther is in the house, he is trapped in the attic, he uses a blanket to protect himself, he realizes that his mom and sister are in danger, etc.?
400
The two kinds of fruit that the main character throws in to the raft.
What are oranges and lemons?
400
Three of the 8 poems or stories read during our poem rotation activity.
What is Midnight Storm, The Rainy Day, Elisabeth Bradstreet, The Windmill, A Hillside Thaw, The Raven and the Swan, The Swallow's Advice, or The Farmer and the Stork.
500
The climax of the story.
What is when the fox tricks the black hounds one last time by jumping back and forth on the floating ice down the river.
500
The exposition of the story.
What is a cave and baby snakes.
500
The definition of the word sly.
What is cunning or wily; stealthy, insidious, or secret; mischievous, crafty, elusive?
500
The wife not wanting to leave on the 13th and statements like heading "toward the largest stretch of ocean in the world" hint at events that will occur later in the story, which is known as this.
What is foreshadowing?
500
In her poem, Elizabeth Coatsworth says that swift things are __________ and slow things are _________.