THE COLD EQUATIONS SHORT STORY Explain the role that the setting has on the plot. (HINT: Imagine if this story had not taken place in space)

The novel begins with a flashback. what do you think is its purpose? what do you learn about the narrator?

Which of these excerpts is most clearly an example of narrative poetry? a. “in xanadu did kubla khan/a stately pleasure dome decree…” b. “and all that’s best of dark and bright/meet in her aspect and her eyes…” c. “who can contemplate fame through clouds unfold/the star which rises…” d. “one shade the more, one ray the less/had half impaired the nameless grace…”

Reread lines 6-7 "the survivor." determine how the tone of these differs from the preceding lines (1-5)