Name: ______
Date: ______Period: ______
“The Californian’s Tale”
Vocabulary:
Apprehension (n.):
Boding (n.):
Imploring (adj.):
Materialistic (adj.):
Predecessor (n.):
Sedate (adj.):
Sever (v.)
Solace (n.)
1. There can be such ______from the score of little unclassifiable tricks and touches that a woman’s hand distributes about a home.
2. Charley fetched out one hearty speech after another, and did his best to drive away his friend’s ______and ______.
3. One came across solitary log cabins of the earliest mining days, built by the first gold-miners, the ______of the cottage-builders.
4. He went on and read the bulk of it – a loving, ______, and altogether charming and gracious piece of handiwork.
5. He then had in his humiliation resolved to ______all communication with his home relatives and friends.
6. When he repeated that ______question still another time, I lost my patience for the moment, and spoke pretty brutally to him.
7. That was all hard, cheerless, ______desolation, but here was a nest which had aspects to rest the tired eye and refresh that something in one’s nature.
Elements:
8. Describe the Setting. How does the setting affect the mood of the story?
9. How different is Henry’s cabin from the other cabins in the area?
10. Identify 3 events which foreshadow the surprise ending.
11. Explain how Twain creates suspense in the story?
12. From what point of view is the story told?
13. Explain how Twain uses dialogue to characterize both the narrator and Henry.
14. Identify both the protagonist and the antagonist of the story.
15. Identify the conflict in the story.
16. What do the furnishings, pictures, and other objects in the cottage symbolize?
17. The author uses oxymoron as a figure of speech; explain what an oxymoron is and find 2 examples used
in the story (p.249 & 250)