Short Story Test

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What is a short story?

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a story intended to be read in 1 sitting; limited in they don’t include extras

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1 sitting, no extras

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What is a novel?

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novel: long invented prose narrative

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long

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What is a novella?

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novella: a brief novel or long short story

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breif novel

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Define fiction

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fiction: literature that is not true

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not false

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define plot

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The pattern of events or main story in a narrative or drama

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pattern events

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expostion

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exposition: a setting forth of the meaning or purpose; “exposing in the beginning of the story”
i. Establishes the setting
ii. Gives an idea of the conflict
iii. Gives a hint of who the protagonist may be

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beginning of plot curve

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rising action

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rising action: The events leading to the climax.

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leading

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climax

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The turning point of a story’ intense; no significant information is given after it

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turn the corner

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falling action

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The events following the climax

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follow the middler

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denoument

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The final resolution or outcome of the conflict

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resolution

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protagonist

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the main character that has the problem

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good guy

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antagonist

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the person, place, idea, or physical force opposing the protagonist

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bad guy

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characterization

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characterization: The way the author develops a character
a. physical description of person or kind of person
b. character’s speech, actions, and thoughts
c. others’ opinions or a description by another character
d. character’s response/reactions when interacting with others

9. Characterization of protagonist: a description of the main character or characters
a. trait: A long-term behavior or characteristic
b. feeling: a short-term emotional response to a particular situation
c. attitude: their attitude

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trait feeling attitude

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setting

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the place and time the story takes place

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place and time

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theme

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the message hidden in the story by the author not moral

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authors like moral

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conflict and types

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the protagonist’s problem in the story; a struggle between 2 opposing forces; can be external (physical) or internal (conscience), or a combination of both
a. Man vs. man
b. Man vs. society
c. Man vs. environment
d. Man vs. himself
e. Man vs. supernatural/G-d
f. Man vs. Technology

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types all have man

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flashback

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A literary or cinematic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological order of a narrative.

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past

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foreshadowing

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author gives hints of signs of what is to come

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to come

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diction

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Choice and use of words in speech or writing.

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words in writting

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symbolism

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The practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships.

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symbol

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tone

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The attitude of the AUTHOR toward the theme; the twist the author gives on the theme – agree or disagree, positive or negative

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attitude of author

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point of view

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point of view: who tells the story
a. first person: major or minor character tells the story using I or we
b. third person limited: he, she, they – narrator presents the information through the eyes of a character whose knowledge of events is limited
c. third person omniscient: narrator can comment on any actions or thoughts (all knowing)

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first to third unlimited

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irony

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irony: A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect.
a. situational: Discrepancy between appearance and reality, expectation and outcome, or reality and the way things should be
b. dramatic: a relationship of contrast between a character's limited understanding of his or her situation in some particular moment of the unfolding action and what the audience, at the same instant, understands the character's situation actually to be.
c. verbal: The speaker intends to be understood as meaning something that contrasts with the literal or usual meaning of what he says

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verbal situational dramatic

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Author of Stop the Sun

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Gary Paulsen

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Gary indianda

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author of the lottery

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shirley jackson

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not micheal jacksons sister

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author of the git of the maji

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o henry

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learned about hiim last year

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author of walter mitty

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James Thurber

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weird name

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athor of the necklace

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Gay de maupassant

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its french

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the author of the lady and the tiger

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Frank R. Stockton

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stock a ton

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author of appointment with love

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S L kishor

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initial intitial last name

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author of thank you mam

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Langston Hughs

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Hugh Fintzhugh

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author of to build a fire

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Jack London

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Call of the wild

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basic plot and climax of stop the sun

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climax-when he asks his father about the war
plot- terry's father has some illness that terry doesn't understand

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war story

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setting of stop the sun

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a long time after the vietnam war, present time, suburb

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sorta like now

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main characters of stop the sun

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terry, his father, his mother

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a family

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theme and symbolisim of stop the sun

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theme-vietnam syndrom, you can't understand something you haven't gone through
symbolism - no sun equals safty

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thing about wat the story was about

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conflict and type of stop the sun

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man vs. himself and man vs. man
terry doesn't understand his fathers illness, and his father is battleing with a hard illness

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ovious

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basic plot and climax of the lottery

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climax - drawing from the box
plot- a village draws from a box to kill someone each year

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think abut the story

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setting of the lottery

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june 27th, summer, village, past

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june something

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main characters of the lottery

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the town, tessie hutchinson

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tessie

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theme and symbolism of the lottery

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twisted society(theme)
black box-death

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black

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conflict and type of the lottery

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man vs. society
tessie gets picked from the black box

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think of village

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basic plot and climax of the gift of the maji

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basic plot-a man and a woman buy presents for each other by selling what the other baought something for and they are poor
climax - della sells her hair

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summery

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setting of the girft of the maji

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a long time ago in a city

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sorta like new york

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main characters of the gift of the maji

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della and jim

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wife and husband

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theme and symbols in the gift of the maji

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theme-irony, gift giving
symbols - dellas hair and jims watch - pride and joy, the presents - love

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irony

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conflict and type of gift of the maji

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man vs. himself

they self their pride and joy for each other out of love

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himself

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basic plot and climax of the necklace

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plot- a poor woman maries a clerk her husband was limited to go to a ball but she had no jewels or niceousifts and she gets a necklace but loses it and replaces it for more than worth anf they end up running their life
climax- losing the necklace

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losing a jewel

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setting of the necklace

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france, 1800's

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paris, place where

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main characters of the necklace

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Mathilde Loisel

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a movie about a little girl who has powers

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theme and symbols of the necklace

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theme- tell the truth
symbols - nechlace -impotance, responsibilty

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the truth

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conflict and type of the necklace

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man vs. himself, she loses the necklace and has to spend 10 years of her life to replace it

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himself

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basic plot and climax of appointment with love

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plot - a man goes to new york to meet his pen pal
climax- a minute til six

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six is so soon

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setting of appointment with love

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new york city, new york, train station

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a bif city where my brother lives

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main characters of appointment with love

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Lieutenant Blandford and the author

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part of an army

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theme and symbols of appointment with love

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theme- love is wats on the inside not the out
symbols - the book, love, mirical
the flower- the author

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2 symbols and a saying

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conflict and tyoe of appointment with love

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man vs himself
a man goes to meet the love of his life but doesn't no wat she looks like and a fat ugly woman goes up to him right afte a beutiful women walks by and he is tested to see if he choses the right women

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long

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basic plot and climax in thank you mam

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plot- a boy trys to steal from a woman but she catches him and takes him home to clean up
climax- cleaning and taking care of the boy

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steeling is bad

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setting of thnk you mam

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a city

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dunt no much

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main characters of thank you mam

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rodger and mrs. luella bates washington jones

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wat a long name

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theme and symbols of thank you mam

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theme- don't steal, treat everyone with care
symbols- the purse, everything she had

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steeling is bad

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conflict and type of thank you mam

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a boy trys to steal from a lady but she basically kidnaps him cleans him up and teaches him a lesson
man vs man or man vs himself

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2 types

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basic plot and climax of the lady and the tiger

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a king puts people on trial in an area and they have to choice between to doors one has a tiger and one has a lady
climax- the barberian goes on trial

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tiger and lady

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setting of the lady and the tiger

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olden time, roman empire, an arena

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gladiator

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main characters of the lady and the tiger

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a man, the princess, the king

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royalty

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theme and symbols of the lady

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theme- a hard choice
symbols- lady, innocent, free
tiger - death, guilty

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title

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conflict and type of the lady and the tiger

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man vs man, he has to choice which door and the princess knows and tells him to go to the right

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basic plot and climax of to build a fire

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plot- a guy is walking through the yukon with his dog
climax- idk

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idk climax

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setting of to build a fire

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yukon

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very cold

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main characters of to build a fire

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the man and his dog

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theme and symbols of to build a fire

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the fire- life
theme- don't go walking through the yukon

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conflict and tyoe of to build a fire

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a man is walking throught the yukon, runs out of food, and can't buid a fire
man vs. nature

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battle with the cold