Literary Terms: Define Foreshadowing: Hints that something is going to happen in a story Conflict: A serious argument or problem in a situation. Personification: A figure of speech in which anything has human attributes. Prediction: A statement of what will or might happen in the future.
II. Elements of Suspense:
Define suspense. A state of anxious uncertainty of the outcome of an event.
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Provide examples of each of the following elements within the story (including page numbers):
Tone (Narrator’s attitude):
He mocks the men as being foolish to believe that guns would be effective against the birds
Mood (atmosphere):
It is winter in december and is very gloomy and cold.(1) …show more content…
Questions:
1. Describe the narrator of the story and his family. Provide textual support for your ideas.
Nat and his family are a bonded family, shown by the family not thinking he is a maniac. When he may be hallucinating.
2. What is Nat’s initial explanation for the birds’ strange behavior? Is this reasonable? Why/Why not? Nats explanation for the birds was that the birds change of behavior was caused by the change of weather, which is not reasonable because weather always changes, why would it affect the birds now.
3. What is Nat’s only concern at the end of the story? What does this suggest regarding his character? Provide specific support for your answers. Nats only concern is to get more information and to wait because he has done everything in his power to survive.
7. On December 3, two minor incidents occur, one involving the farmer and one involving Nat. What are these incidents and how do they foreshadow what the story’s conflict will be? When the story open there are two incidents, one being when Nat notices the change in the behavior of the birds, the other being with the farmer also noticing the birds by saying, “There are more birds about than usual, and daring, some of
II. Elements of Suspense:
Define suspense. A state of anxious uncertainty of the outcome of an event.
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Provide examples of each of the following elements within the story (including page numbers):
Tone (Narrator’s attitude):
He mocks the men as being foolish to believe that guns would be effective against the birds
Mood (atmosphere):
It is winter in december and is very gloomy and cold.(1) …show more content…
Questions:
1. Describe the narrator of the story and his family. Provide textual support for your ideas.
Nat and his family are a bonded family, shown by the family not thinking he is a maniac. When he may be hallucinating.
2. What is Nat’s initial explanation for the birds’ strange behavior? Is this reasonable? Why/Why not? Nats explanation for the birds was that the birds change of behavior was caused by the change of weather, which is not reasonable because weather always changes, why would it affect the birds now.
3. What is Nat’s only concern at the end of the story? What does this suggest regarding his character? Provide specific support for your answers. Nats only concern is to get more information and to wait because he has done everything in his power to survive.
7. On December 3, two minor incidents occur, one involving the farmer and one involving Nat. What are these incidents and how do they foreshadow what the story’s conflict will be? When the story open there are two incidents, one being when Nat notices the change in the behavior of the birds, the other being with the farmer also noticing the birds by saying, “There are more birds about than usual, and daring, some of