The narrator shining up his canoe for Sheila is this.
What is rising action?
100
The character in the story who is seventeen and has red hair.
Who is Sheila Mant?
100
The idea of fish and fishing reoccurring throughout the story.
What is motif?
100
Sheila disliking fishing is a _______ in the story.
What is conflict?
100
Point of view of this story.
What is first person?
200
The narrator feeling sick after he cuts the line is part of this.
What is falling action?
200
Something the narrator always carried with him during that summer.
What is a fishing rod?
200
"Do the things that make you happy," could be thought as this.
What is theme?
200
The town where the concert took place.
What is Dixford?
200
This person drives a Corvette in the story.
Who is Eric Caswell?
300
Sheila saying that fishing is dumb while on the canoe is part of this.
What is rising action?
300
The narrator is this old in the story.
What is fourteen?
300
Shocking could be a way to describe the story using this literary term.
What is tone?
300
Late August in New Hampshire close to the Connecticut River from around the 1970's-90's is a description of this.
What is setting?
300
The object the narrator uses to cut the fish wire.
What is a penknife?
400
The narrator asking Sheila on a date would be this part of the plot.
What is inciting incident?
400
The name of the narrator's dog.
What is Tosca?
400
The narrator cuts the fishing line and lets the fish go instead of catching the fish so Sheila does't see him catch a fish on their date, and to stay on her good side. This is an example of this type of irony.
What is situational irony?
400
The information about Sheila and the Mant family we get from the narrator.
What is exposition?
400
The bass is the fish that lives in the river that the narrator fishes in and the fish that gets stuck on his line. The river is how he and Sheila get to the concert for their date. Sheila Mant is the girl he falls for during the summer.
What is the significance of the title?
500
The narrator cutting the fish line would be this part of the plot.
What is climax?
500
"Micropetrus salmonides" is the scientific name for this animal.
What is the Largemouth Bass?
500
The author uses allusion to mention this person in the story.
Who is Jackie Kennedy?
500
Sheila dumping the narrator for Eric Caswell and the narrator regretting cutting the line is this.
What is resolution?
500
Another person the narrator alludes into the story.