Preface
"They are the perfect showstopping spectacle: blood, guts, horror, and mystery"
What are shark attacks?
This TV sports program invited Peter Benchley to dive with the sharks.
What is The American Sportsman?
" What I was doing, in fact, was making one final attempt to stay alive as a writer." This reading strategy is used to help the reader understand that the author was unsuccessful in his writing career.
What are making inferences or using context clues?
Need one to get a point.
This literary device lets the reader know what is coming. " . . . no danger of seeing a great white shark because, supposedly, great whites didn't exist on the Barrier Reef."
What is foreshadowing?
The only person who knew how to attract and film sharks in relative safety.
Who was Rodney Fox?
These have increased due to the number of people living by and swimming in the ocean.
The author felt the shark's skin texture and compared it to this.
What is sandpaper?
None of these made it to this finish line: A Stillness in the Water, The Silence of Death, White Death, and The Summer of the Shark.
What is Jaws, the title of the book?
When viewing a shark, this is a dead giveaway that you are facing Death.
What is the apparently toothless upper jaw of a shark which conceals rows of sheathed daggers?
This literary device shows the crew's ignorance of Benchley's ordeal.
What is irony?
This statistic shows the imbalance between shark attacks on humans and human attacks on sharks.
What is "for every human killed by a shark, roughly 10 million sharks are killed by humans"?
These got an unusual flossing.
What are the shark's teeth when they got caught on the rope connected to the cage.
This huge paperback hit never made it to number one in hardcover.
What is Jaws, by Peter Benchley?
"Forget all the laws about sharks."
What is the first rule about sharks?
This literary device helps the reader visualize the speed and size of the shark: ". . . it rolled onto its side and, like a fighter plane peeling away from a formation, glided down and away into the darkness."
What is a simile?
The grand total of all living things.
What is biomass?
Benchley realized he had used this literary device when he feared he had written a story foretelling his own death.
What is irony? OR What is foreshadowing?
The author had this common reaction to seeing a shark while diving.
What is panic?
A defense mechanism in many sharks to cover the eyeball for protection.
What is the nictitating membrane?
The most inexperienced people can sometimes benefit the crew.
What is the lesson that Wendy showed by being banished to the top of the boat?
Rods bent double over this oil slick on the water indicate sharks are nearby.
What is chum?
Either way, Benchley thought he was done for: the shark's teeth sever the rope or the shark takes a deep dive.
What are ways that the author could die from his desire to see sharks up close?
Chapter 2 uses this literary device to take the reader back in time.
What is a flashback?
This diving concern shows that there is more than a shark bite that can kill a diver.
What is an air embolism?
The great white lacks this particular type of eye protection.
What is a nictitating membrane?