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Exposition
Conflict
Rising Action
Climax/Resolution
Vocabulary
100
The family spends the first 17 days on this.
What is a life raft?
100
These animals were constantly around the ship posing a strong external conflict.
What is sharks?
100
On the 14th day the family catches and eats this.
What is a turtle?
100
The family is rescued on this number day.
What is the 38th day?
100
This is what the family had to do to the life raft.
What is abandon it?
200
There were this many people in the life raft?
What is 6?
200
The scene in the story where the dinghy sails away creates this, making the reader want to know more.
What is suspense?
200
When the family has difficulty keeping the raft afloat they move into this.
What is the dinghy?
200

This is the part of Freytag's pyramid when the fishing boat turns toward the raft.

What is the climax?

200
This is what is happening to the families condition.
What is deteriorating?
300
This is the narrator of the story and character who wrote the journal.
Who is Dougal Robertson?
300

Dougal mentions that the family may have to abandon the ship which is an example of this literary term that means informing the reader of what may possibly come later in the story.

What is foreshadow?

300
The family does this in order to help pass the time.
What is daydream?
300
This is how Dougal got the attention of the fishing boat.
What is flares?
300
Dougal did this to the flare to alert to boat of their presence.
What is illuminated it?
400

This item was not part of the supplies that the family had stored on the raft -- one bailer, a bag of onions,  a first-aid box, a pound of apples. 

What is a pound of apples?

400
This is the major external conflict in the story.
What is staying alive until they are rescued?
400
This is the best word to describe the amount of supplies the family had. (Hint: it is a vocabulary word)
What is scanty?
400
This is the reason that the family had to "trim" the dinghy.
What is so the dinghy would not capsize?
400
After the ship sank the family worked to collect this to float on.
What is debris?
500
This is the name of the family's ship that sank.
What is the Lucette?
500

The family having to keep their spirits up against overwhelming odds is an example of internal or external conflict. 

What is the internal conflict?

500
Although the rain provides water for the family to drink it, the problem it poses is this.
What is sinking the raft?
500
When Dougal says, "death could have taken me quite easily just then, for I knew that I would never experience another such pinnacle of contentment," he means this.
What is he would never know such happiness again?
500
A copious amount of rain water means that there was this amount.
What is an abundant amount?