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Characters
Plot
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Vocabulary
Literary Definitions
100
The protagonist.
Who is Nat Hocken?
100
The setting (a month, place, and time frame).
What is December 3rd, Cornwall, England on the coast, post WWII 1950s?
100
The first name of the main character.
What is Melanie Daniels?
100
campion
What is a pink flower?
100
The little stabbing beaks as sharp as pointed forks.
What is simile?
200
The antagonist.
Who are the birds?
200
This event causes the birds to wait and to attack.
What is the tide coming in and out?
200
The job Annie has in the local town.
What is a school teacher?
200
Primus
What is a portable stove?
200
The fluttering, the whirring of the wings had ceased.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
The character who makes jokes about turning birds into steak and pies.
Who is Harry Trigg?
300
This happens when Nat tried to bury the birds on the beach.
What is the the wind blew the birds away?
300
The setting for the first major bird attack where several people were affected.
What is Cathy's birthday party?
300
wireless
What is the radio?
300
She shook her head for silence.
What is alliteration?
400
The names of the protagonist's children.
Who are Jill and Johnny?
400
The action that represents the climax of the short story.
What is Nat smoking the last cigarette?
400
Ironically, Cathy brings this at the end of the movie as they exit Mitch's house.
What is lovebirds?
400
stile
What is steps over a wall or fence?
400
This is a black winter, not a white one.
What is foreshadowing?
500
He is the cowman.
Who is Jim?
500
What Mrs. Trigg used unsuccessfully as a weapon against the birds.
What is an umbrella?
500
The name of the director of this film.
What is Alfred Hitchcock?
500
whilst drive
What is a group card game?
500
A silent message passed between them.
What is oxymoron?