Call of the Wild Review
1) Review Literary Elements (conflict, metaphor, falling action, symbolism, paradox, mood, extended
metaphor, climax, allusion, theme, rising action, plot, point of view, setting, and dramatic irony)
2) Figurative Language ( personification, simile, onomatopoeia, idiom, metaphor, and hyperbole)
3) Tone
4) Point of View
5) Dynamic and Static Characters
6) Themes
7) Internal and external conflicts
8) Protagonist and antagonist
9) Rhyme scheme
10) Ballad
11) Internal Rhyme
12) Events in the novel
13) internal conflict
14) external conflict
15) themes in COW
16) Review “Cremation of Sam McGee”
Mini-Essay: Answer following questions about symbols in the novel. Answer each part and discuss
thoroughly. Write two paragraphs, one paragraph for each symbol. Use a piece of notebook paper to answer.
(ELACC7RL4)
1)
Buck’s First Beating with the Club and Curly’s Death: What does he learn from the beating from the
man in the red sweater, and what does the club now represent to him? When he sees Curly killed, he
learns another lesson. What does he learn, and what does it represent to him?
2)
Mercedes’ Possessions: Discuss what her possessions represent and what lesson can be learned from
what happens to them.
3)
Buck’s Traces: Discuss their significance when he is first strapped into them, when he is harnessed into
the lead dog’s position, and finally, when John Thornton cuts them.
4)
Buck’s Attack on the Yeehats: Although he came close several times, Buck had never before killed a human.
To attack a human being would have once been unthinkable for Buck. Why is he able to do so at that point?
What is the significance of the attack?