Characters
How old is the narrator as he is telling the story?
Mid-fifties
In what month did the typhoon occur?
September
Involving extreme danger or disaster
desperate
What is dialogue?
When the characters speak to each other.
The Greek root of the word "logical" is _________________.
log
What disability did K. have?
A speech impediment
circus
an image, sound, other sensory perception that is not based on reality
hallucination
Is this a simile or a metaphor? " The house would creak and shudder as if a huge hand were shaking it."
A simile
The Latin root of the word "credible" is...
cred
What was the subject matter of most of K.'s artwork?
What did the narrator see in the crest of the second wave?
He saw K looking at him, grinning.
force or speed of movement
momentum
A scene from the past that interrupts the present action of a story is called a ________________.
Flashback
The Latin root of the word "evidence" is __________________.
vid
What did the narrator's father die from?
Cancer
How long was the narrator unconscious after the typhoon?
top of a wave
crest
What point of view is used here?
"A huge wave nearly swept me away," said the seventh man.
Third person point of view (outside narrator).
What is a synonym (which we have discussed in class) for the word "qualities"?
Trait or characteristic
Why didn't the narrator ever get married?
He didn't want a wife to experience the terror he felt.
What healed the narrator of his nightmares and fears?
He looked at K's watercolors and he went into the ocean.
a feeling that something bad will happen
premonition
The typhoon wave is a symbol of...
Fear, which keeps us from doing what we should.
What is the beginning of a story called?
The exposition