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Chapters 1 and 2
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Literary Device
100
The new law that Buck is experiences as he moves from a civilized and orderly world to a more primitive chaotic world.
What is the primitive law?
100
Beat Buck with a club to subdue him.
What did the man in the red sweater do to Buck?
100
He laughed
What did Spitz do after killing Curly?
100
changed completely
What is metamorphosed?
100
Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain.
What is epigraph?
200
Buck's first owner
Who is
200
The first time Buck feels it and tastes it in his life.
What is snow?
200
He laughed
What did Spitz do after killing Curley?
200
reproof
What is scold?
200
"Now, you red-eyed devil"
What is metaphor?
300
taught Buck the "Law of the Club"
Who is the man in the red sweater?
300
Ashamed
How did Buck feel when the men laughed at him?
300
He learns to steal and eat faster in the new savage world.
What does Buck learn about getting food?
300
calamity
What is disaster?
300
"With a roar that was almost lion-like in its ferocity, he again hurled himself at the man."
What is simile?
400
A metal discovered in the far North of Canada.
What is gold?
400
killed Curly.
What did Spitz do?
400
Joe whirled around on his heels to face him
How did Joe react to Spitz's attempt to discipline him?
400
malignant
What is evil?
400
Buck's first day on the Yea beach was like a nightmare. Buck's muscles became hard as iron.
What is simile?
500
To pull sleds and perform tough tasks in icy weather
Why are strong dogs needed in the far North?
500
The law that Buck learned from men and dogs
What is the Law of club and fangs?
500
Slashed his shoulder to the bone for three inches up and down
What did Sol-lecks do when Buck approached his blind side?
500
unwonted
What is unusual?
500
Buck was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken. He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance against a man with a club. He had learned the lesson, and in all his afterlife he never forgot it. That club was a revelation. It was his introduction to the reign of primitive law"
What is anthro-po-morphism?