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Characters
Stories 1
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100
an insight about life
What is theme?
100
an educated guess; figuring out what happened in the story based on the information the author gives you
What is an inference?
100
the store owner in "Bargain"
Who is Mr. Baumer?
100
the occupation of the friend who stayed in New York in "After Twenty Years"
What is a policeman?
100
arrested Silky Bob in "After Twenty Years"
What is a plain clothes policeman?
200
vantage point from which a story is told
What is point of view?
200
a person who transports goods (in the old West)
What is a freighter?
200
the blind character in "Hum"
Who is Hugh?
200
the occupation of the friend who moved to Chicago in "After Twenty Years"
What is the mafia (mob)?
200
How do Hugh and his dog communicate with each other in "Hum"?
What is they hum?
300
all-knowing point of view; a narrator who sees it all
What is omniscient?
300
what happens as a result of a cause
What is an effect?
300
the bad guy in "Bargain"
Who is Slade?
300
the means of transportation in "Hearts and Hands" when Ms. Fairchild strikes up a conversation with the marshal and his prisoner
What is a train?
300
Slade carries this label for always beating up and threatening Mr. Baumer
What is a bully?
400
narrator speaks as "I"
What is first-person?
400
an event that makes something happen
What is a cause?
400
the boy who moved to Texas from Bethlehem
Who is Sami?
400
the problem that causes the mistake which leads to Slade's death in "Bargain"
What is he can't read?
400
how the passenger knows which is the marshal and which is the prisoner in "Hearts and Hands"
What is he noticed which hand the handcuffs were on?
500
a narrator tells the story from the perspective of one character
What is third-person?
500
the main character in a story
What is a protagonist?
500
the prisoner in "Hearts and Hands"
Who is Easton?
500
reason kids didn't associate with Sami anymore in "Hum"
What is he was an Arab living in the US after 9/11?
500
the lesson Hugh teaches Sami in "Hum"
What is it is OK to be different?