cident?

Can you find one sentence on the second page of the story that
foreshadows the result?

How many incidents or episodes contribute to the story?

Do these help in the development of Ernest's character? If not, what
is the use of them?

Why are they arranged in this order?

Introduce into its proper place an incident of a scientist. Write it
up.

Do you think one of the incidents could be omitted? Which one?

Are the incidents related in the order in which they occurred? Is one
the cause of another?

Has the story a plot? Why do you think so? What is a plot?

Where are introduced the time, place, and the principal character?

What is the use of the description of "the great stone face"?

Why does the author tell only what "was reported" of the interior of
Mr. Gathergold's palace? Is it better so?

Are the descriptions to accent the mood of the story? or are they
primarily to make concrete and real the persons and places?

Is there any place where the movement of the story is rapid?

Does the author begin at once, and close when the story is told?

Did you find any use of comparisons in the piece? (See top of p. 6,
top of p. 19, middle of p. 22.)[3]

Of what value are they in composition?

THE GENTLE BOY.
(Riverside Literature Series, No. 145.)

What is the main incident?

In relation to the whole story, in what place does it stand?

Do the other incidents serve to develop the character of "the gentle
boy"? or are they introduced to open up to the reader that character?
(Compare with "Wee Willie Winkie.")

Do you consider all the incidents necessary?

Why has the author introduced the fact that Ilbrahim gently cared for
the little boy who fell from the tree?

What is the use of the first two pages of the story?

Where does the story really begin?

How could you know the time, if the first page were not there? Is it a
delicate way of telling "when"?

Notice that time, place, and principal characters all are introduced
into the first paragraph of the real story.

Why does the author note the change in Tobias's circumstances? Does it
add to the interest of the story? Would you omit it?

Do you think this plot more complicated than that of "The Great Stone
Face"?

What is the use of the description on p. 31?

What do you note as the difference between
(a) second line of p. 19, sixth line of p. 27, sixteenth line of p.
29, and (b) fourt