Vocabulary
Porch
What is a veranda?
The most exciting part of the story; the top of the plot pyramid
What is the climax?
A mongoose's enemy in the story
What is a cobra?
She fakes a broken wing (so brave!)
Who is Darzee's wife?
"Ouch! He's tickling under my chin!"
Who is Teddy?
Sneaky
What is cunning?
The beginning of the story where we meet the characters
What is the exposition?
What country the mongoose in the story lives
What is India?
What is a muskrat?
"We are very miserable. One of our babies fell out of the nest yesterday and Nag ate him."
Who is Darzee?
Muddied
What is draggled?
The part of the story when things are building up
What is the rising action?
The mongoose in this story ate THIS fruit, which is a part of the animal's diet
What is banana?
The wife of Nag
Who is Nagaina?
"The great God Brahm put his mark upon all our people, when the first cobra spread his hood to keep the sun off Brahm as he slept. Look, and be afraid!"
Who is Nag?
A ferret-like mammal
What is mongoose?
What is the falling action?
The motto of the mongoose
What is "Run and find out!"
The brown, deadly, and small snake
Who is Karait?
"Oh, you stupid tuft of feathers! Is this the time to sing?"
Who is Rikki-tikki (yelling at Darzee)
Victory
What is triumph?
The official name used for "the end"
What is the resolution?
Mongooses are omnivores, which means they eat these two food categories
What are meat and vegetation?
Chuchundra's cousin the rat
Who is Chua?
"He saved our lives and Teddy's life. Just think, he saved all our lives."
Who is Teddy's mother? (or the mother)