REVIEW OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE AND STORY PLOT ELEMENTS FOR THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES

BUT INCREDULITY AND INDIFFERENCE WERE EVIDENTLY MY STRONGEST CARDS. Figurative Language Element:

“FEEL MY HAND!” IT WAS AS COLD AS A BLOCK OF MARBLE. Figurative Language Element:

“…AND OLD GABLED HOUSES PEEPED OUT FROM AMID THE THICK GREEN FOLIAGE…” Figurative Language Element:

“THAT GRAVEL PAGE UPON WHICH I MIGHT HAVE READ SO MUCH HAS BEEN LONG ERE THIS SMUDGED BY THE RAIN AND DEFACED BY THE CLOGS OF CURIOUS PEASANTS.” Figurative Language Element:

“…SUNLIGHT FLOODED IN THROUGH THE HIGH MULLIONED WINDOWS, THROWING PATCHES OF COLOUR FROM THE COAT-OF-ARMS WHICH COVERED THEM. THE DARK PANELLING GLOWED BRONZE IN THE GOLDEN RAYS…” Figurative Language Element:

“… THEY GET IN THE WAY OF GOING THERE IN THE DRY WEATHER AND NEVER KNOW THE DIFFERENCE UNTIL THE MIRE HAS THEM IN ITS CLUTCHES.” Figurative Language Element:

“ONCE, OUR FRIENDS STOPPED AND STARED INTO THE SHOP WINDOW…” Figurative Language Element:

“WELL, YOU SEE THE HILLS BEYOND? THEY ARE REALLY ISLANDS CUT OFF ON ALL SIDES BY THE IMPASSABLE MIRE, WHICH HAS CRAWLED ROUND THEM IN THE COURSE OF YEARS.” Figurative Language Element:

THE LIGHT BENEATH HIM WAS REFLECTED IN HIS SMALL, CUNNING EYES WHICH PEERED FIERCELY TO RIGHT AND LEFT THROUGH THE DARKNESS LIKE A CRAFTY AND SAVAGE ANIMAL WHO HAS HEARD THE STEPS OF THE HUNTERS. Figurative Language Element:

SOME DEEP SORROW GNAWS EVER AT HER HEART. Figurative Language Element:

“THERE NOW!” SAID HOLMES BITTERLY AS HE EMERGED PANTING AND WHITE WITH VEXATION FROM THE TIDE OF VEHICLES. Figurative Language Element:

“BUT WE HOLD SEVERAL THREADS IN OUR HANDS, AND THE ODDS ARE THAT ONE OR OTHER OF THEM GUIDES US TO THE TRUTH.” Figurative Language Element:

“AT THAT INSTANT, I WAS AWARE OF A BUSHY, BLACK BEARD…” Figurative Language Element:

FAR AWAY CAME THE SHARP CLINK OF A BOOT STRIKING UPON A STONE. Figurative Language Element:

“BRONZING BRACKEN AND MOTTLED BRAMBLE GLEAMED…” Figurative Language Element:

THE FOG WREATHS CAME CRAWLING SLOWLY ROUND BOTH CORNERS OF THE HOUSE Figurative Language Element:

“THE FOG…COVERS THE HOUSE…AND THE UPPER FLOOR AND ROOF FLOATED LIKE A STRANGE SHIP UPON A SHADOWY SEA Figurative Language Element:

WHEN STAPLETON THREATENS LAURA LYONS BY SAYING THE POLICE WILL SUSPECT HER INVOLVEMENT WITH SIR CHARLES IF SHE TELLS THEM ABOUT THE 10PM MEETING APPOINTMENT SHE MISSED. Story plot element:

WHEN STAPLETON LEAVES SIR HENRY AT DINNER FOR A FEW MINUTES TO GO OUTSIDE TO THE OUTHOUSE/STORAGE SHED Story Plot Element:

THE CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICH THE CONVICT MEETS HIS END Story Plot Element:

WHEN WATSON SPIES THE SILHOUETTE OF THE MAN ON THE TOR Story Plot Element:

WHEN BARRYMORE REVEALS THAT HIS WIFE FOUND A BURNT SECTION OF A LETTER IN SIR CHARLES’ FIREPLACE Story Plot Element:

THE CONFRONTATION RESULTING IN MISS STAPLETON BEING BEATEN AND TIED UP. Story Plot Element:

WHEN STAPLETON DIES IN THE GRIMPEN MIRE Story Plot Element:

WHAT IS THE CLIMAX OF THE NOVEL?

DESCRIBE THE FALLING ACTION

DESCRIBE THE RESOLUTION: