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Plot
The Children's Story
The Monkey's Paw
Like the Sun
Misc
100
This includes setting, characters, and major conflict.
What is exposition
100
The protagonist of The Children's Story
Who is Johnny
100
How does Mr. White's first wish come true
What is he got a payment from Maw and Meggins as hush money for Herbert's death
100
What does Sekhar say about someone that has died?
What is a selfish brute
100
Setting must include these two elements
What is time and place
200
Sekhar tells his wife that he can't swallow her food is part of _______ for Like the Sun.
What is Rising Action
200
This is an example of direct characterization found in The Children's Story.
What is the way that New Teacher dresses, Miss Worden's anxiety, New Teacher knows all of the students' names
200
The antagonist of the Monkey's Paw
What is the monkey's paw... or fate
200
This is Sekhar's punishment for telling the headmaster the truth about the headmaster's horrible singing.
What is “Yes, sir,” Sekhar said, feeling that sitting up all night with a hundred test papers was a small price to pay for the luxury of practicing truth. *
200
A concrete detail must be a _____________, preferably a quote.
What is fact.
300
What part of the plot does this quote come from? A perfect fusillade of knocks reverberated through the house, and he heard the scraping of a chair as his wife put it down in the passage against the door. He heard the creaking of the bolt as it came slowly back, and at the same moment he found the monkey's paw, and frantically breathed his third and last wish.
What is falling action.
300
The major conflict in The Children's Story
What is whether or not Johnny and to a lesser degree, the rest of the children will learn to trust New Teacher
300
It is this character's idea to make the second wish upon the monkey's paw.
Who is Mrs. White
300
The title of Like the Son includes this literary device
What is a simile
300
Commentary does not simply restate what has been said in the concrete detail but _____________ the information to prove that the CD is in truth a fact.
What is analyzes
400
This is the turning point of a story.
What is climax
400
This is one of the minor conflicts that occurs during the rising action of The Children's Story.
What is Miss Worden is sent to the office, New Teacher sings a song, New Teacher teaches about the Pledge, New Teacher teaches about prayer
400
This is the moral of the Monkey's Paw
What is do not tempt fate. Fate will destroy you if you think you can beat it.
400
This is the climax of Like the Sun
What is when Sekhar answers the question (which I will also take as correct) was my singing good or poor?
400
This is the purpose of the concluding statement
What is unify your arguments made in this paragraph; to explain why this paragraph needed to be written in the first place.
500
This is the resolution of The Children's Story
What is once Johnny accepts New Teacher, all of the students trust New Teacher.
500
One of the universal themes present in The Children's Story
What is distrust of your elders, rebellion, conformity
500
Herbert's death is this type of irony.
What is situational.
500
This is the reason the headmaster chose Sekhar to give his true opinion of his singing.
What is Sekhar’s taste in music was well known. He was one of the most dreaded music critics in the town.
500
This is the answer to the meaning of life, the universe, and everything.
What is 42