Story Elements
The story takes place at home and at the office over the weekend.
What is setting?
corrections and improvements
What are revisions?
a complicated and confusing path or process
What is maze?
The simile, "she felt like a spy sneaking into a strange building" compares these two things.
What is Natalie and a spy?
When Natalie feels guilty about tricking her mother, it is this type of conflict.
What is character vs. self?
The story is this category of genre.
What is realistic fiction?
making a forceful effort to influence
What is pressuring?
muffled or subdued
What is muted?
These character traits are revealed when Zoe says, "If I don't hear from her in three days, then I'm gong to turn the heat up, way up!"
What is she is bold and impatient?
This character trait best describes Letha.
What is she is demanding?
Their names are Natalie (aka Cassandra), Hannah, and Zoe (aka Zee Zee).
What are main characters?
reveal; make known, often publicly
What is disclose?
involving the production and selling of literature and information
What is publishing?
As evidenced by eating Chinese and going to the movies, Natatlie and Hannah's relationship can be described this way.
What is close?
This is the reason Natalie phones Zoe at midnight.
What is she feels she is being unfair to the other writers and should tell her mother the truth?
"She felt like a spy sneaking into a strange building."
What is figurative language - simile?
the original copy of a story or article
What is manuscript?
having to do with books and literature
What is literary?
This shows that Letha is a know-it-all.
What is she pretends she has heard of the Sherry Clutch Agency, even though she couldn't have since Zoe and Natalie made it up?
This is the reason Natalie won't go along with Zoe's suggestion of offering to read the manuscript for Hannah.
What is Natalie doesn't want Hannah to suspect she wrote it?
Natalie (aka Cassandra) felt guilty about the plan and wondered if she should tell her mother the truth.
What is conflict - character vs. self?
ironic, disdainful and dry; bitterly amusing or amused
What is wry?
relating to the actions of an editor, a person who prepares books and articles for publication
What is editorial?
The reader can conclude that Natalie will do this.
What is tell Hannah the truth after she finds out her manuscript will be published?
This is most likely how Natalie feels at the end of the story.
What is relieved and excited that Hannah loves "The Cheater"?