Elements of Fiction
The setting of the "Interlopers" plays a large role in the development of the plot. This aspect of the setting is critical.
What is nature?
Based on what we know about their two families, Urlich and Georg are most likely this...
What is enemies?
"From swamps afar, where sluggish lagoons give..."
In line 22 the word slugglish most likely means...
What is drowsy?
"O, glorious is this night of joyous sounds; / Too full for sleep. Aromas wild and sweet, /
From muscadine, late blooming jessamine, / And roses, all the heavy air suffuse." (Lines
16-19)
These lines from the text show the speakers appreciation for the setting. What type of figurative language is used here?
What is imagery?
A transition word that would complete the following sentence correctly:
Ulrich began to shed his hatred, _________ Georg help on to it a little bit longer.
What is while?
The Interlopers shares this theme through examining the relationship between the two main characters along with the eventual outcome of their feud.
What is 'there is no point in holding a grudge?"
The conflict between the two families ultimately brings the two men to the forest to kill each other. Both families refuse to end the feud because of this character trait.
What is pride?
The word "begirt" in the following line most likely means?
"Begirt with cotton fields, Anguilla sits"
What is surrounded by?
The following lines from the poem suggest what about the speaker's point of view?
"The Summer sweetness fills my heart with songs
I cannot sing, with loves I cannot speak."
What is unworthy?
The tone of "A September Night."
What is awe stricken?
The following passage is significant to the development of the story because of this:
"Neighbour," he said presently, "do as you please if your men come first. It was a fair compact. But as for me, I've changed my mind. If my men are the first to come you shall be the first to be helped, as though you were my guest."
What is Ulrich's change in perspective?
The two men banter back and forth after being pinned under the tree. This emotion is more than likely fueling their argument at this point.
What is fear?
The word "acquiesced" in the following passage most likely means...
"A famous law suit, in the days of his grandfather, had wrested it from the illegal possession of a neighbouring family of petty landowners; the dispossessed party had never acquiesced in the judgment of the Courts, and a long series of poaching affrays and similar scandals had embittered the relationships between the families for three generations. "
What is accepted?
The following line uses what type of figurative language?
"Faint bellows from the alligators come"
What is personification?
The rhyme scheme of "A September Night."
What is free verse?
The ending of the story is emphasized through the author's use of this rhetorical / satirical device.
What is situational irony?
Even after the men have reconciled, they still hold on to their pride for a bit. Each man wishes this, so that he may receive the credit.
What is his men to come first so that he can declare the truce.
The word "interlopers" in the following passage most likely means...
"Good," snarled Georg, "good." We fight this quarrel out to the death, you and I and our foresters, with no cursed interlopers to come between us."
What is outsider?
The speaker's description of the setting reveals this about Anguilla.
What is it's beauty (through sounds, sights, and wildlife)
What is shock, defeat, grief, deflated....?