The Sea Devil Questions

  1. The man fishes by night because he likes the hardship and loneliness of it. He also likes to feel different than while doing his job back in time to feel isolated and elemental.
  2. He tied the knots of the castaway around its wrists. When the man let the baby, porpoise go because a porpoise represents good luck. When the author explicitly said that the man carefully checked the mesh net to make sure there were no rays inside.
  1. The complicating incident: when the man decided he wouldn’t cast his net until he sees two swirls. This choice affects him in the future. A crisis that happened was when the man was holding onto his rope too hard and got yanked into the water by the sea devil. The climax: was when the man’s rope that was tangling him underwater finally broke because some barnacles were sawing the rope. He got free and out of the water away from the sea devil safe.
  2. Civilized: the world is where everyone is living and everything’s modern and developed.Primitive: the world is where it’s only the natural aspects of earth and nature. These are all man-made technologies like the flying plane in the sky or the road being built and surrounded by water.
  1. He doesn’t want a creature in his position. He also learns he’s never going to fish alone at night.
  2.  “A great horned thing shot like a huge bat of the water”- simile
  3. “Behind him, the lights glowed in the cheerful room”- personification
  4. “The night was breathless” A metaphor

Vocabulary:

Sullen: gloomy or bad temper

Weltering: to roll, toss, or heave as weaves or the sea

Elemental: of nature of an ultimate constitute

Sinewy: a person or animal lean and muscular

Hoisted: raise or haul up

Phosphorescence: light emitted by a substance without combustion or perceptible heat

Cordage: cords or ropes, especially in a ship’s rigging

Exhilaration: a feeling of excitement, happiness

Atavistic: relating to or characterized by reversion to something ancient or ancestral

Centrifugal: moving or tending to move away from a center

Gauntly: extremely thin or bony

Impeding: delay or prevent (someone or something)

Tenaciously: with a firm hold of something; closely

Respite: a short period of rest or relief from something difficult or unpleasant

Equilibrium: a state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced

Imminent: about to happen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Sea Devil Questions

  1. The man fishes by night because he likes the hardship and loneliness of it. He also likes to feel different than while doing his job back in time to feel isolated and elemental.
  2. He tied the knots of the castaway around its wrists.

When the man let the baby, porpoise go because a porpoise represents good luck.

When the author explicitly said that the man carefully checked the mesh net to make sure there were no rays inside.

  1. The complicating incident: when the man decided he wouldn’t cast his net until he sees two swirls. This choice affects him in the future. A crisis that happened was when the man was holding onto his rope to hard and got yanked into the water by the sea devil. The climax: was when the man’s rope that was tangling him underwater finally broke because some barnacles were sawing the rope. He got free and out of the water away from the sea devil safe.
  2. Civilized:world is where everyone is living and everything’s modern and developed.

Primitive: world is where its only the natural aspects of earth and nature.

He makes references to the number of advancements the human society has had. In the beginning. These are all man-made technologies like the flying plane in the sky or the road being built and surrounded by water. The man’s wife who is safe at home in the warming housing.

  1. He doesn’t want a creature in his position. He also learns he’s never going to fish alone at night.
  2. “a great horned thing shot like a huge bat of of the water”- simile

“Behind him, the lights glowed in the cheerful room”- personification

“the night was breathless” A metaphor

Vocabulary:

Sullen: gloomy or bad temper

Weltering: to roll, toss, or heave as weaves or the sea

Elemental: of nature of an ultimate constitute

Sinewy: person or animal lean and muscular

Hoisted: raise or haul up

Phosphorescence: light emitted by a substance without combustion or perceptible heat

Cordage: cords or ropes, especially in a ship’s rigging

Exhilaration: a feeling of excitement, happiness

Atavistic: relating to or characterized by reversion to something ancient or ancestral

Centrifugal: moving or tending to move away from a center

Gauntly: extremely thin or bony

Impeding: delay or prevent (someone or something)

Tenaciously: with a firm hold of something; closely

Respite: a short period of rest or relief from something difficult or unpleasant

Equilibrium: a state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced

Imminent: about to happen