Owl Creek Assignments (Literary Terms)

Kimberly Davis

Mrs. Endicott

English 12CR

28 January 2014

Owl Creek Assignment (Literary Terms)

1.) Exposition - a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory
2.) Rising Action - The rising action of a story is the series of events that begin immediately after the introduction of the story which builds up to the climax.
3.) Climax - The most exciting or important point of something.
4.) Falling Action - The events of a drama after the crisis but before the resolution.
5.) Resolution - The decision of not doing something or doing something.
6.) Protagonist - One of the major characters in a fictional text.
7.) Antagonist - Someone who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something.
8.) Flashback - A scene in a novel, movie or etc. in which is set in a time earlier than the main story.

Owl Creek Assignment (Writing)

Kimberly Davis

Mrs. Endicott

English

28 January 2014

Owl Creek Assignment (Writing)

Part A:

Chapter 12.) Is that a symbol – Chapter 12 relates because the bridge. The bridge is a symbol in ways that not many people would realize. It symbolizes life and death in this story.

Chapter 11.) More Than It’s Gonna Hurt You: Concerning Violence – This connects to the story because he was hung.

Chapter 15.) Flights of Fancy – This chapter has a relation to this story because before finding out he was dead there was a different outlook, and after finding out about his death there would be a new beginning by starting over.

Chapter 26.) Is he Serious? And Other Ironies - This chapter relates because it is ironic how at the end you think he is going to survive, yet he is dead because of hanging from the bottom of the bridge.

Part B:

The climax to the story Owl Creek Bridge is whenever he was swimming toward the shore as the Union soldiers’ fire at him and the whirl pool threw him to the opposite shore.