Key Vocab
A line that separates two places.
What is a boundary?
The three components of a short story's exposition.
What are setting, character, and conflict?
Writers use these to make their meaning clearer.
What are analogies?
In The Interlopers, the feud has last this many generations.
What is 3?
He wrote The Interlopers.
Who is Saki?
To let something go or set it free.
What is to release?
The two components of the setting.
What are where & when?
Character vs Character & Character vs Nature
What are the two main conflicts in The Interlopers?
The point in the Interlopers at which Ulrich starts to feel terror.
What is when he sees the wolves?
The setting of most of his stories is in Maine.
Who is Stephen King?
Easy to see or understand.
What is obvious?
The turning point or most important event in the story.
What is the Climax?
The three types of irony.
What are verbal, dramatic, and situational.
According to King, an author should make the reader care about these in order to build suspense.
What are characters?
The country where Saki from born.
What is England?
To give or allow.
What is to grant?
The problem or struggle in a short story.
What is the conflict?
The contrast between what is expected and what actually happens in a short story.
What is irony?
According to King, a good horror writer must appeal to a reader's...
What are emotions?
The country where Saki was raised.
What is Burma?
An ongoing argument between two people.
What is a feud?
All of the events that lead to the eventual climax.
What is the rising action?
The underlying message in a short story.
What is theme?
The eastern Carpathian Mountains.
What is the setting of the Interlopers?
One of the world's most famous horror writers.
Who is Stephen King?