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Fiction and nonfiction
Vocabulary
Characters
Details
Misc.
100
The time and place where the story takes place.
What is the definition of setting?
100
The ending or conclusion to the story
What is resolution?
100
Maybe the first Pullman car porter about whom many legends developed.
Who is Daddy Joe?
100
The words which build suspense throughout the story
What are ticktock ticktock
100
A porter house
What area to sleep was located in the train station?
200
The perspective from which the story is told
What is the definition of point of view?
200
Another way to say burdened down
What is weighted down?
200
A porter who died and came to Lester to take him on the 11:59.
Who is Tip?
200
The accessory Lester always carried with him.
What was his gold watch?
200
The name of the large pot-bellied stove in the porter house
What was a Baker heater?
300
The type of literature that draws on real people and events to tell invented stories?
What is historical fiction?
300
Another word for mesmerizing
What is fascinating, amazing
300
He was a lumberjack in legends.
Who was Paul Bunyan?
300
In the 1950's
In what decade did the 11:59 take place?
300
The Zephyr, the Silver Arrow, the Hummingbird
What are the names of the three trains that Lester had worked on?
400
To persuade, to inform, to entertain
What are the three main purposes of non-fiction?
400
The seats converted into beds at night.
What was unique about a Pullman car?
400
The occupation of Casey Jones
Who was the legendary train engineer who died saving many lives?
400
St. Louis
What city is the setting of the 11:59?
400
The prayer that Lester recited
What is the Twenty-third Psalm from the Bible?
500
The person telling the story in third person point of view
Who is a narrator outside the story?
500
The meaning of illogical.
What is another word for opposed to fact, doesn't make sense?
500
He was a hard worker, a good story teller and he had a lot of pride in his work illustrates these.
What are two character traits of Lester Simmons?
500
Another way to say the Death Train
What is the 11:59?
500
Casey Jones took the Cannonball from Memphis to Canton located in these states.
What are Tennessee and Ohio?