Vocabulary
This vocabulary word means "unpleasantly proud; thinking one is more important than other people."
Scrutinizes Pay station
Finality Arrogant
What is arrogant?
This vocabulary word means "air or gas in the chest cavity."
Irrigation Pneumothorax
Retractors Warrant
What is pneumothorax?
At the end of the story it is revealed where the story takes place. This is the town.
What is Gettysburg?
This is the feeling of anxious curiosity for what is to come.
What is suspense?
This vocabulary word means "examines carefully."
Warrant Devoid of
Scrutinizes Irrigation
What is scrutinizes?
This vocabulary word means "feeling that something is finished and can't be changed."
Arrogant Moonshiners
Finality Irrigation
What is finality.
This vocabulary word means "puzzled."
Arrogant Perplexed
Apprehension Devoid of
What is perplexed?
The play "In the Fog" was written when?
What is the late 1940's.
This literary device uses hints to suggest to the reader what is to come. This is a common literary device used when creating suspense.
What is foreshadowing?
The play "In the Fog" is set when and where (include at least 2 details about the setting in your answer).
What is: Pennsylvania State Route (PENNA-30)
A foggy road
Gettysburg/ Gettysburg battlefield
At night
In the past/ Sometime after the battle of Gettysburg
This vocabulary word means "declare positively."
Perplexed Finality
Warrant Apprehension
What is warrant?
This vocabulary word means "without."
Devoid of Apprehension
Scrutinizes Finality
What is devoid of?
From the information in the story we can infer who Zeke and Eben are. They are...
What are Civil War soldiers who fought at the Battle of Gettysburg
What was strange about Zeke and Eben's reaction to the doctor saying he was going to call the police?
What is they were very calm and did not seem concerned about the doctor reporting the incident.
The climax of "In the Fog" occurs when...
What is the doctor leaves and says he is going to report the incident?
This vocabulary word means "people who distill liquor illegally."
What is moonshiners?
This vocabulary word means "uneasiness; fearfulness."
Arrogant Perplexed
Retractors Apprehension
What is apprehension?
This is the main conflict the characters face in the play "In the Fog."
What is that the doctor is taken at gunpoint and asked to help a wounded man.
The fog and darkness add to the plays suspense by...
What are two mysterious, unexplained things that Zeke and Eben do or say that hint they are not what they seem?
Answers may vary.
This vocabulary word means "surgical instruments for holding back the flesh at the edge of a wound."
What is retactors?
This vocabulary word means "flushing out a wound with water or other fluid."
What is irrigation?
When the doctor asks Zeke and Eben what happened to the wounded man, Zeke responds that this has happened.
What is mischief.
How does the fact that Zeke and Eben are not fully visible add to the suspense of the story?
Answers may vary.
How does the fog add suspense to the story? What is an example from the play?
What is fog makes it difficult to see and creates an eerie mood. Examples may vary.