1. Three Skelton Key
Three Skeleton Key

2. Three Skeleton Key Review
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Three Skeleton Key Review

3. Comprehension
Why does the narrator take the job at Three Skeleton Key?
He wants to set aside some money before he gets married.
He wants to protect the lighthouse.
He wants to watch the ships sail in the nighttime.
He is sent there to find three escaped convicts.

4. Be Afraid!

5. Plot When people read a suspenseful story, they feel
disappointed because the story is not believable.
disturbed by the frightening, bloody details in the story.
uncertainty or anxiety about what will happen next in the story.
happy because events in the story are funny.

6. Plot Diagram Climax Falling Action Rising Action Exposition Resolution
-Setting: time and place -Initial conflict
Resolution

7. Plot The plot of a story is an idea about life
a series of related events
the place where the story occurs
the writer’s attitude toward the subject

8. Plot
A story’s most exciting moment, the highest point of suspense, is called:
the main idea
foreshadowing
the climax
its subject

9. Plot In the resolution of a story, new characters are introduced.
all the loose ends of the story are tied up.
mysterious events occur.
information about the author is presented.

10. Literary Terms
Each of the following sentences contains a simile except:
Sarah howled like a wolf.
The clouds were as faint as dreams.
Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
Her face was as red as a beet.

11. Literary Term
We know this story is told from the first-person point of view because
of all the details included in the story.
the narrator uses the pronouns they and he.
the narrator uses the pronouns I and we.
the person telling the story knows what everyone is thinking.

12. Comprehension How do the rats get on the key?
They are native to the key.
They are brought in with the supplies.
They swim over from another island
A ship wrecks on the rocks and they swim ashore.

13. Comprehension
The narrator’s descriptions of the window in the lantern room imply that the:
window will collapse.
thick glass will keep the rats out.
skeletons will open the window.
rats will eat the glass.

14. Author Who is the author of “Three Skeleton Key”? George Toudouze
Rudyard Kipling
Dr. Seuss
Charles Dickens

15. Comprehension How do the rats first get inside the lighthouse?
They dig a tunnel under the lighthouse.
They eat a hole through the door.
The metal sheeting that was sealing the window gives way.
Crazed by the sight of the rats, Le Gleo opens the door.

16. Literary Terms
When some rats return defeated from the attack on the patrol boat, the narrator says that the other rats greeted them with “shrill cries . . . with . . . a derisive note . . . .” The author is using
foreshadowing.
personification.
simile.
alliteration.

17. Comprehension
All of the following strategies are used to rescue the three men from the island except 
The crew tempt the rats onto a barge filled with meat.
The crew drench the barge with gasoline and then set it on fire.
The keepers set fire to the island.
The crew shoot any escaping rats and leave the rest to be eaten by the sharks.

18. Comprehension What becomes of the three lighthouse attendants?
One man returns to the key; two refuse to go back to the lighthouse.
Two men return to Three Skeleton Key; the third man dies.
One man returns to the key; one goes insane; one dies.
Two men return to the island; the third man is too frightened to return.

19. Plot What is the last stage of the plot called where the story ends?
a) exposition
b) falling action
c) climax
d) resolution

20. Comprehension Which of the following is an example of foreshadowing?
The narrator sees the Dutch ship heading for the island.
A man dreams of the three convicts’ skeletons.
Some of the rats fall into the ocean and are eaten by the sharks.
The narrator sees a tug pulling a barge covered with raw meat.

21. Literary Element Which word means “the sequence of events in a story”?
plot
conflict
point of view
metaphor

22. Literary Terms
‘Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers’ is an example of
simile
alliteration
foreshadowing
personification

23. Plot
The beginning of a story that introduces the characters and explains the setting is called the _______________________.
Exposition

24. Comprehension rats and people
The two groups of characters in “Three Skeleton Key” are ________________ and ____________________.
rats and people

25. Plot
The setting of a story tells us the _______________ and ____________.
time and place

26. Plot
______________ _______________is the term for events that move toward the climax of the story.
Rising action

27. Plot
______________ _______________ is the term for events that take place after the climax. This is when the characters begin to resolve their conflicts.
Falling action