Elements of Fiction
Most Dangerous Game
Poison
A Man Called Horse
Gift of the Magi
100
First person, second person, third person limited, third person omniscient are examples of this.
What is point of view?
100
Rainsford's profession.
What is a big game hunter?
100
India
What is the setting of Poison?
100
The western United States, during the 1800's, in a time of unrest between settlers and natives.
What is the setting of A Man Called Horse?
100
The main character's name
What is Della?
200
What happens in a story, including the introduction, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
What is plot?
200
Rainsford discovered him living on the island.
Who is the General?
200
a very poisonous snake living in India
What is a krait?
200
The name the captive man chose for himself, because of how he was being treated at first.
What is Horse?
200
The amount of money Della has to buy her husband a Christmas present.
What is $1.87
300
The people who live in the story.
What are characters?
300
humans
What is the General's prey?
300
He thought he had a snake asleep on his stomach.
Who is Harry Pope?
300
He shot an enemy and stole his horses.
How did Horse get enough wealth and respect to court Pretty Calf?
300
The possession Della is most proud of
What is her hair?
400
Time, place, and social context
What is setting?
400
The climax of the story.
When Rainsford fights the General in his bedroom.
400
The point of view of this story
What is first person?
400
Yellow Robe was killed in a hunting party.
Why did Greasy Hand and Pretty Calf give away all their possessions?
400
The point of view of Gift of the Magi
What is third person limited?
500
The reader's opinion about the purpose of the story; a larger truth that the characters or reader learns.
What is theme?
500
Sometimes you're the hunter, sometimes you're the prey.
What is one theme for Most Dangerous Game?
500
When the doctor pulls the sheet off Harry.
What is the climax of Poison?
500
Because he felt responsible for Greasy Hand.
Why did Horse stay with the Crows after Pretty Calf died?
500
When we love someone, even our most prized possessions are worth giving up for them.
What is one possible theme for Gift of the Magi?
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