crooked+man

This is by Mina and Ryo

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: The Crooked Man

 Point of View: First Person

 Protagonist: Sherlock Holmes  What type of character is the Protagonist? he is a round character

 Antagonist: Colonel Barclay

 Describe the setting: the setting is Sherlock Holmes trying to figure out how colonel barclay died. THIS IS NOT A DESCRIPTION OF SETTING. YOU ARE DESCRIBING AN ELEMENT OF PLOT!

 Type of Conflict:Man vs Himself

Describe the main conflict:

 Describe the Climax of the Story:When Colonel Barclay died TOO MUCH HAPPENS AFTER THIS FOR IT TO BE THE CLIMAX

 How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? First, Sherlock Holmes thought someone killed Colonel, but actually Colonel died because of a heart attack.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.

 This story makes us think someone killed a person but he actually died himself so there is sounds similar to theme. Crooked means something is bends, this story bends too, because he wasn't killed by a person.

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?

 Henry is very important person in this story, he was important in the main of conflict. Henry was related to the main conflict and the theme.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?

 The climax is giving clues for solving the crime, in this moment it tells us the theme.  The theme is " No one can leave the circle of crime".

Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):

Simile: "Mrs.Barclay turned as white as death".

Metaphor:  "He's a token of evil."

Personification: " your hat-stand proclaims as much."

Symbol: "was lying a singular club of hard carved wood with a bone handle."

Foreshadowing (give both elements):  " He ran through the hall door and round to the lawn, upon which the long French windows opened".  it gives us a hint about there might be third person in this story.

Irony:

Imagery:

" It may seem very foolish in your eyes," it gives people imagine in their mind.

Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> It is sort of similar to mystery because this story makes us think what will happen and we don't know. Like he died himself. we all thought he was killed by someone. But, it gives us hint slowly. And in next happen, it gives us hint again so it is kind of similar to it   Completion 3/5 Effort 3/5 Content 3/5

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