Story Test One Review Flashcards
Stranger on the night train-author, characters, and story line
Mary hocking
There is a beautiful lady that needs to get off of the train to go to a different country but she does not have a passport so she creates a diversion by turning in a American man who was taking a madonna across the country line so she can get off. There is also another woman who witnesses all of this happens
The most dangerous game
Richard connel
General Zarroff
Rainsford
Rainsford is on a boat going to brazil to hunt jaguars then he falls off the boat and he swims to a island and general zaroff is there and he says that he has hunted everything but he gets bored and he starts to hunt humans then rainsford says he wants to leave but zaroff says he is gonna hunt rainsford so rainsford sets a ton of traps but zaroff still finds him so rainsford fakes his death then he sneaks into zaroff room and kills him
The interlopers
Saki( H.H monro)
The characters are georg and and Ulrich.
There is a piece of land in between their two properties and they both claim it is theirs so they are about to kill each other then a tree falls on them and they get stuck. Then they make up and they are about to get free but they get eaten by wolves. The feud had been going for three generations
The lady or the tiger
Frank R. Stockton
The character are the king, the princess, and the man
The king has a system where when u get in trouble there are two doors one has a tiger and one has a lady and if u open the door with the tiger u die and if u open the door with the lady u marry her. He thinks that fate decides what happens. There is a man who falls in love with the princess and the king puts him in the arena and the princess know which door is which so she tells him which door to pick and then the reader decides which one she picks
All the years of her life
Morley Callahan
The character are Alfred, Mr Carr, and Alfred’s mom.
Alfred works at mr carrs store and he is walking out one night and mr Carr knows that Alfred stole something so he calls Alfred’s mom instead of the police and she acts super confident and talks mr Carr out of getting Alfred in trouble. On they way home she tells Alfred not to talk. Alfred looks at her when they get home and he sees how broken she looks from all the pains she’s gone through
Beware of the dog
Raold dahl
The character are the nurse and the man that was the pilot
the guy is flying a plane and his leg is gone and he falls out and he wakes up in a hospital and the nurse tell him he is in his own safe territory but he is actually in enemy territory. He hears German planes but they don’t get shot at and the water is different then what he is used to. Also he sees a sign written in French so he knows he is being lied to and he is being held by enemies. This takes place during World War Two
What does qvpcr stand for
Question Visualise Predict Connect Respond
Plot diagram
Sequence of events
Storyline
Exposition
Setting-time and place
Characters-who?
Conflict
Struggle between opposing forces
Problem
Rising action
Details that build the story
Creates suspense
Climax
Turning point
High point
Decision point
Falling action
Cleans up details
Resolution
Conflict is resolved
Suspense
What makes u want to keep reading
