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What vocab word means "a guarantee or promise"?

assurance

100

Which stage of the plot diagram does "early 1940's" belong in?

Exposition

100
What is the central conflict in The Hitchhiker?
Ronald is haunted by the same hitchhiker over and over as he travels across the country.
100
Adams is going on a road trip, where does he plan to end up?
In California
100

What do we call it "when the plot is interrupted to recreate an event of earlier time?"

flashback

200

What vocab word means "a point where two or more things are joined"?

junction

200

What stage of the plot diagram does "Adams is told that his mother has had a nervous breakdown following the loss of her oldest son" belong in ?

Climax

200

What does Adams learn from Mrs. Whitney?

He died in an automobile accident on the Brooklyn Bridge OR that his mother is hospitalized after having a nervous breakdown.

200
What does Ronald Adams realize after he picks up the girl who was hitchhiking?
He realizes he is the only one that can see the hitchhiker.
200

What do we call "the anxiety a reader feels about what will happen next in the story?"

suspense

300

What vocab word means "giving the impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen"?

sinister

300

What stage of the plot diagram does "Adams stops at a gas station and is told that there are never any hitchhikers in the area" belong in?

Rising Action

300
What does the phantom hitchhiker symbolize?
Death
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At the end of the play, Adams realizes that six days earlier he what?
Died in a car accident on the Brooklyn Bridge.
300
What type of figurative language is being used in the following lines: "He was as drab as a mud fence"(180)?
Simile
400

What vocab word means "lack of variety and interest; sameness"?

monotony

400

What stage of the plot diagram does "Adams sits in the auto camp in New Mexico and ponders his death, who the hitchhiker is, and who he is himself" belong in?

Resolution

400

Where does Ronald Adams' cross-country journey end?

Gallup, New Mexico

400

Why does Adams state facts about himself at the beginning of the play?

to show that he is sane/convince us that he is sane

400
What type of figurative language is being used in the following lines: "The peaceful Ohio fields, brown with the autumn stubble, lay dreaming in the golden light"(171-172)?
Personification
500

What vocab word means "an amusing or mischievous adventure"?

 lark

500

What stage of the plot diagram does "Mrs. Whitney explains that Adams died six days ago in an automobile accident on the Brooklyn Bridge" belong in?

Falling action

500

What is the inciting incident/narrative hook in the story?  What sets the story in motion?

When Adams sees the hitchhiker for the first time on the Brooklyn Bridge.

500

Why does Adams decide to pick up the female hitchhiker?

He doesn't want to be alone; he wants company in his car.

500

What is the definition of foreshadowing?

Hints or clues about what will happen later in the story