7.2B - Context Clues
"the boy place a bowl of milk on the veranda just outside the open doors"
What is the meaning of veranda as it is used in the sentence selection?
What is "a porch"?
What can the reader infer about the location of the dinner party and the conflict i the room?
What is "India is known for cobras"?
What is the initiating event for this story?
What is the change in expression on the face of the hostess?
Why is the hostess’s reaction to the snake important to the story?
What is "It is contrary to the colonel's argument"?
or
What is "it foreshadows the end of the selection"?
The use of third-person point of view in this story makes the reader feel like a —
What is a participant/character?
In the story
"He looks up at the rafters —the likeliest place —but they are bare."
What is the meaning of rafters as it is used in para.6?
What is "beams that support the roof"?
What is a theme of this story?
What is "A calm reaction to a crisis is the best choice"?
or
What is "Beware of spoken words, you might regret them"?
Which detail about the setting advances thee plot development?
What is Cobras live in India
How has being at the dinner party impacted the hostess reaction to the cobra laying on her feet?
What is "she knew if she had freaked out, she as well as other guest would have been bitten"?
How would the story have been different if it had been told from the hostess’s
point of view?
What is "Readers would have been aware of the snake’s location earlier"?
"As he looks, he sees a strange expression come over the face of the hostess. She is staring straight ahead, her muscles contracting slightly."
What is the meaning of contracting as it is used in para.4?
What is "tightening"?
The twenty people sit like stone images while he counts. He is saying “two hundred and eighty” when, out of the corner of his eye, he sees the cobra emerge and make for the bowl of milk.
What is "not moving or having no life"?
Why does the author specifically describe the dining room?
What is "it foreshadows something will occur in the room"?
How did the "spirited discussion" between the young lady and the colonel impact the plot?
What is "the argument foreshadowed how the hostess/ women could handle such a situation"?
"Men are better in a crisis than women."
What point of view is the statement above?
What is "third person point of view"?
"He speaks quickly, the tone of his voice so arresting that it sobers everyone."
What is the meaning of sobers in para.7?
What is "makes serious"?
A spirited discussion springs up between a young girl who insists that women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era and a colonel who says that they haven’t.
What can the reader infer about the phrase “jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse” in paragraph 2?
What is "women are scary/fearful"?
What purpose does the bowl of milk on the veranda serve in plot?
What is "it serves as a rising action to build suspense"?
Why does the American's reaction to the cobra being in the room?
What is "he knows any abrupt/quick action will cause the cobra to strike"?
What point of view is The Dinner Party told from?
What is "third person omniscient point of view"?
"A faint smile lights up the woman’s face as she replies. “Because it was lying across my foot.”
What does is the meaning of faint in para. 12?
What is "dim or slight"?
What is the host assuming when he makes his remark about the colonel's being right?
What is the climax of the selection?
What is "the snake appearing and heading to the veranda"?
DAILY DOUBLE
A faint smile lights up the woman’s face as she replies. “Because it was lying across my foot.”
What can the reader infer about the woman?
What is "she is the the typical woman"?
or
What is "don't stereotype or generalize women"?
or
What is "she is brave and calm"?
“Mrs.Wynnes, how did you know the cobra was in the room?”
She is staring straight ahead, her muscles contracting slightly.
“I want to know just what control everyone at this table has."
Which sentences shows that the narrator is aware of the feelings of others?
What is "She is staring straight ahead, her muscles contracting slightly"?