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Row 1, Col 1 “Three Skeleton Key” takes place Off the coast of this country off the coast of South America What is French Guiana?

1,2 Writers often drop these hints about what may happen next in a story What is foreshadowing?

1,3 This French author, born in 1847, wrote “Three Skeleton Key” Who is George G. Toudouze?

1,4 The reason that it is unusual for the lighthouse keepers to see a ship in their waters. What is the waters are treacherous?

2,1 This reading skill involves guessing based on the text and checking our guess. What is making predictions?

2,2 The reader can do this when the ship is heading toward the lighthouse What is we predict something is wrong with the crew?

2,3 These first lines create suspense in the story. What is “My most terrifying experience”?

2,4 …when the tin metal sheeting first gives away (this happens?) How do the rats get in the lighthouse?

3,1 This type of figurative language gives the rats in the story humanlike qualities What is personification?

3,2 These animals will attack when they are hungry What are ship rats?

3,3 “The framework or one window is eaten away and sags inward” is an example of this… What is a detail that causing suspense?

3,4 boats leaving shore; birds flying into the distance (Vocabulary) What is receding?

4,1 fit to be eaten (Vocabulary) What is edible?

4,2 move or manipulate skillfully What is maneuver?

4,3 concert goers; holiday shoppers (Vocabulary) What are hordes?

4,4 Anxious curiosity What is suspense?

5,1 “A man dreams of the three convicts’ skeletons” is an example of this literary term What is an example of foreshadowing?

5,2 deceptively or unreliably (Vocabulary) What is treacherously?

5,3 One man returns to the key; one goes insane; one dies What happens to the three lighthouse keepers?

5,4 This character takes the job at Three Skeleton Key to make some money before getting married. Who is the narrator?