Conflict
Conflict when a character is at odds with a natural element or obstacle
What is Man vs Nature
The setting of the novel (location)
What is the Yukon or Klondike
The character that falls through the ice first
What is the dog
This emotion in the man's voice alerts the dog to danger
What is Fear
What type of figurative language is found in:
"few more days must pass before that cheerful orb would peep over the skyline."
What is Personification?
Conflict when a character is at odds with another character
What is Man Vs Man
The character trait that results in the man's downfall.
What is lack of imagination
The reason why the man cannot eat his biscuit when he first stops.
What is the ice muzzle
What is he has to take his gloves off and burns his hands without realizing it.
What figurative language does the following quotation contain:
"But the burning brimstone..."
What is Alliteration
Conflict when a character is experiencing a struggle within his own mind, conscience, or morals
What is Man vs. Self
The point of view the story is written in
What is third person omniscient
The man's reaction to falling in the ice
What is anger
The type of figurative language illustrated by:
"...they hung like weights on the ends of his arms..."
What is a simile?
How does this quotation relate to the theme of the story:
The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances.
The man had intellectual knowledge of the world, but was not able to understand how that knowledge might affect his life.
What type of conflict does this quotation represent:
High up in the tree one bough capsized its load of snow. This fell on the boughs beneath, capsizing them. This process continued, spreading out and involving the whole tree. It grew like an avalanche, and it descended without warning upon the man and the fire, and the fire was blotted out! Where it had burned was a mantle of fresh and disordered snow.
The man was shocked. It was as though he had just heard his own sentence of death.
What is 3rd person omniscient
What two types of figurative language are illustrated by "He spat speculatively. There was a sharp, explosive crackle that startled him."
What are alliteration and onomatopoeia
What theme does this quotation suggest:
The animal was depressed by the tremendous cold. It knew that it was no time for travelling. Its instinct told it a truer tale than was told to the man by the man's judgment.
a) Human error vs. chance
b) Nature's indifference
c) Instinct vs Intellectual knowledge
d) People's appreciation of their pets
What is knowledge vs instinct?
This shows the man accepting his fate (and the resolution of the internal conflict).
What is: He imagines what will happen after he dies.
How does the following foreshadow what comes later in the story:
"The old-timer had been very serious in laying down the law that no man must travel alone in the Klondike after fifty below."
What is: this passage makes the reader expect something bad to happen to the man who is traveling alone in the bitter cold.
The resolution of the man vs nature conflict in the story.
What is: When the man doesn't pay attention to the details of the natural world, he dies. The dog (representing nature) quickly moves on, seemingly forgetting about the man.
The dog is following the man in search of:
What is Fire
The element of nature that means life or death for the man
What is Fire
What is a symbol
What turning point is illustrated in the following quotation:
It was his last panic. When he had recovered his breath and control, he sat up and entertained in his mind the conception of meeting death with dignity.
What is: The man stops struggling and accepts his fate.