English Teat Flashcards
What is one plausible explanation for H.H. Munro’s pen name, Saki?
It may be based on a character from a poem
What became of Munro and his siblings after his mother’s death?
He and his siblings lived with grandmother and aunts in a strict household.
A struggle between a character and an opposing force” is the definition of what term?
Conflict
Very steep or perpendicular” is the definition of what vocabulary word?
Precipitous
To make the subject of verbal controversy” is the definition of what vocabulary word?
Disputed
One who moves into a place without permission; an intruder” is the definition of what vocabulary word?
Interloper
What is the setting for the story?
Ulrichs forest
What is the name of one of the characters and what does the reader learn about him?
Georg is an interloper and has hated Ulrich for three generations over a piece of land
What is the name of one of the characters and what does the reader learn about him?
Ulrich is rich and has hated Georgfor three Generations
Over a piece of land
A long series of poaching affrays and similar scandals had embittered the relationships between the families for three generations” (Saki 4).
- (RL 9-10.2) If an English teacher analyzes the pattern of events in this story, what label would that teacher give to the above passage?
Part of the Exposition
The roebuck, which usually kept in the sheltered hallows during a storm-wind, were running like driven things” (Saki 5).
15. (L 9-10.5) The above passage includes an example of what kind of literary device?
Imagery and a simile
“[Ulrich]…wandered far down the steep slopes amid the wild tangle of undergrowth, peering through the tree trunks and listening through the whistling and skirling wind” (Saki 5).
16. (L 9-10.5) The above passage includes an example of what kind of literary device?
Imagery
“[Ulrich] strayed away by himself from the watchers whom he had placed in ambush on the crest of the hill” (Saki 5).
17. (RL 9-10.2) If an English teacher analyzes the pattern of events in this story, what label would that teacher give to the above passage?
Rising action
A]s he stepped around the trunk of a huge beech and he came face to face with the man he sought” (Saki 5).
- (RL 9-10.2) If an English teacher analyzes the pattern of events in this story, what label would that teacher give to the above passage?
Inciting event
- (RL 9-10.1) How does the narrator describe the moment when the two characters meet?
Hate in his heart and murder uppermost in his mind
- (RL 9-10.1) What event occurs that causes the two men to stay together and talk?
The tree fell and they were pinned down.
The descending twigs had slashed the skin of his face, and he had to wink away some drops of blood from his eyelashes” (Saki 6).
21. (L 9-10.5) The above passage includes an example of what literary device?
Imagery
- (RL 9-10.1) Initially when the two men find themselves stuck with one another, what does each man say he will instruct his men to do when they arrive?
Ulrich said his men will release them and told George he should wish that he was stuck I stead of getting caught in someone’s land. Saying shame on you
Georg said that their men would roll the trunk on the other man.
As the two men realize they will be together for a while, what does the wealthy land-owning man offer to the other?
He offer wine from his flask
In the pain and languor that Ulrich himself was feeling, the old fierce hatred seemed to be dying down” (Saki 8).
24. (RL 9-10.2) If an English teacher analyzes the pattern of events in this story, what label would that teacher give to the above passage?
Rising action
How does Georg suggest everyone in the area would react if they saw the two men together?
He says “How the whole region would stare and gabble if we rode into the market square together.
And you offered me your wine flask… Ulrich von Gradwitz, I will be your friend” (Saki 8). 26. (RL 9-10.2) If an English teacher analyzes the pattern of events in this story, what label would that teacher give to the above passage?
Climax
In the cold, gloomy forest, with the wind tearing in fitful gusts through the naked branches and whistling round the tree-trunks” (Saki 9).
27. (L 9-10.5) The above passage includes an example of what kind of literary device?
Imagery
- (RL 9-10.1) What do the two men do together to try to resolve their predicament?
They have decided to become friends.
“I can see figures coming through the woods. They are following in the way I came down the hillside” (Saki 9).
29. (RL 9-10.2) If an English teacher analyzes the pattern of events in this story, what label would that teacher give to the above passage?
Falling action
Wolves” (Saki 9).
30. (RL 9-10.4) The above passage is an example of what kind of figurative language?
Non-normative
Ulrich von Gradwitz found himself stretched on the ground, one arm beneath him … in a tight tangle of forked branches, while both legs were pinned beneath the fallen mass” (Saki 6).
31. (RL 9-10.3) What type of characterization is Saki using in the above passage?
Direct
Georg, who was nearly blinded with the blood which trickled across his eyes, stopped his struggling for a moment to listen, and then gave a short, snarling laugh” (Saki 6).
32. (RL 9-10.3) What type of characterization is Saki using in the above passage?
Indirect
To derive as a conclusion from facts or premises” is the definition of what term?
Inferred
When reality is different from what happens or what is anticipated” is the definition of what term?
Irony
According to the biographical information, how is H.H Munro’s writing characterized and to whom is he compared ?
Dorothy Parker and O. Henry
