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My Mother Really Knew
100
Exposition: The highwayman tells Bess that ____________
What is he will come back by the next night?
100
The person who serves as the story's villain and antagonist
Who is Tim?
100
The country that this poem most likely takes place.
What is England?
100
All the events that happen in a story are called ________
What is plot?
100

The poem is set in this place

Hawaii

200
Resolution: The highwayman and Bess are ____________
What is "reunited" as ghosts?
200
Tim's job
What is an ostler?
200
The moon was a ghostly galleon (type of figurative language)
What is metaphor?
200
Point of view when the author uses pronouns like he, she, they
What is third person?
200

The poem focuses on this type of love

Family

300
Falling action: The redcoats _____________
What is kill the highwayman?
300
The protagonist of this story is _________.
Who is the Highwayman?
300
List three details of the Highwayman's description.
What are: French cocked hat on his forehead, a bunch of lace at his chin, a coat of the claret velvet, breeches of fine doe-skin boots that were up to his thigh a rapier and the rapier hilt (answer does not have to be exact wording if everyone knows what you meant)
300
Name a possible theme for this poem.
What is (debatable by answer - do you agree with what was guessed?)
300

This poem is written in _______ _________ style because it does not rhyme.

Free Verse

400
Climax: Bess ________________
What is shoot herself to warn the highwayman?
400
The redcoats are the men of ________.
Who is King George?
400
His hair like mouldy hay (type of figurative language)
What is simile?
400
The setting of the poem "The Highwayman"
What is 1700s England, a small inn?
400

The author has a ____________ relationship with his father

Difficult but loving

500
Rising action: The redcoats come to the inn and _________
What is tie Bess/watch for the highwayman?
500
________ takes his/her life to save his/her love.
Who is Bess?
500
The author of the poem
Who is Alfred Noyes?
500
What would the point of view be if it read: "I'd a French cocked hat on my forehead, and a bunch of lace at my chin; I'd a coat of the claret velvet, and breeches of fine doe-skin. They fitted with never a wrinkle; my boots were up to my thigh! And I rode with a jeweled twinkle-- My rapier hilt a-twinkle-- My pistol butts a-twinkle, under the jeweled sky.
What is first person point of view (or first person narration)?
500

What does the mother know?

That love has ups and downs