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Face to Face With Hurricane Camille 1. What are the main characteristics of narration? Key: Simply defined, narration is the telling of a story. A good story has a beginning, a middle and an end, even though it may start in the middle or at some other point in the action and more backward to the earlier happenings. Narration is concerned with action, with life in motion, with a meaningful series of actions. It revolves around people, called characters, in some kind of struggle or conflict against other people, nature, society or themselves. In the story the leading character is called the hero or protagonist and the people or forces he fights against is called the antagonist of the enemy. The action, that is, incidents and events are generally presented in order of their occurrence, following the natural time sequence of the happenings( chronological order). As the conflict develops, suspense and tension increase until the highest point or the climax of the struggle is reached. After the climax, the story quickly moves to a conclusion, which is sometimes called a denouement. Action (plot) usually dominates narration; however, some narratives focus on character, theme (the idea behind the story), or atmosphere (the mood or tone) 2. “??? and we’re a good 250 yards from the sea, ???”( paragraph 3) How to understand “a good”? Key: a good: a general intensive, meaning “at least, full” e.g. We waited a good six hours. 3. “It seized a 600,000-gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3.5 miles away.”(Paragraph 7) What is the figure of speech in this sentence?Key: Personification. The hurricane acted as a very strong person lifted something very heavy and dumped it 3.5 miles away. 4. “Another neighbor came by on his way inland—would the Koshaks mind taking care of his dog?” (Paragraph 6) What is the inner relationship between these two sentences? Key: The dash in this sentence indicates that some words have been left out and the structural pattern ha