To Build a Fire
All Summer in a Day
Cemetery Path
Thank You Ma'am
Story Elements
100

The setting of the story

What is the Yukon territory (Canada) in the winter?

100

The place on Earth where Margot is from.

What is Ohio?

100

The setting of the story.

What is a cemetery during a winter night?

100

The author of the story.

Who is Langston Hughes?

100
The part of dialogue that describes what characters are doing as they speak.

What is action beat?

125

The breed of dog that travels with the man

What is a husky?

125

The number of years between sunlight on Venus.

What is 7 years?

125

The main character of the story.

Who is Ivan?

125
The type of shoes Roger wants to buy with the money he steals from the woman

What are suede shoes?

125

This element brings about the downfall of the character and hinders them from obtaining their goal(s).

What is a fatal flaw?

150

The main type of conflict in the story.

What is man vs. nature

150

Something that gets compared to the sun.

What is a flower, a coin, a fire, a penny, a crayon?

150

The challenge made by Cossack Lieutenant.

What is for Ivan to walk through the cemetery alone.

150

The older woman made this for the boy.

What is cocoa and dinner?

150

This literary device appeals to the senses.

What is vivid imagery?

175

The man is fearful of these while on the trail

What are hidden springs?

175

The fatal flaw of Margot.

What is fear of confrontation/not interacting with others

175

The main conflict of the story.

Man vs. Self (Ivan's fear)

175

The name of the old woman in the story.

Who is Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones?

175

The four kinds of conflict discussed in class and their type.

What are man vs. man (external), man vs. nature (external), man vs. society (external), and man vs. self (internal)?

200

What the man and dog each represent

What is the man = knowledge and the dog = instinct

200

'It was a nest of octopi clustering up great arms' is an example of this literary device.

What is a metaphor?

200

The main theme of the story.

What is things are not always what they seem?  (It seems that Ivan has been frozen by a ghost, but really he had pierced his cloak into the ground with the saber.  As a result, he is frozen to death during the night).
200

The theme(s) of the story

Not judging people right away.

Showing forgiveness

Second chances.  Mrs. Jones gives Roger another chance by not reporting him to the police and instead trusting him and showing him kindness.  He learns that living in poverty does not mean living without dignity.

200

Four suspense techniques discussed in class

What are the clock, stakes, additional obstacles, and false hope?

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