Who is a minor character in "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"?
How does a dynamic character move the plot forward in a story?
Read this excerpt from "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi."Nagaina gathered herself together, and flung out at him. Rikki-tikki jumped up and backward. Again and again and again she struck, and each time her head came with a whack on the matting of the verandah, and she gathered herself together like a watch-spring. Then Rikki-tikki danced in a circle to get behind her, and Nagaina spun round to keep her head to his head, so that the rustle of her tail on the matting sounded like dry leaves blown along by the wind.He had forgotten the egg. It still lay on the verandah, and Nagaina came nearer and nearer to it, till at last, while Rikki-tikki was drawing breath, she caught it in her mouth, turned to the verandah steps, and flew like an arrow down the path, with Rikki-tikki behind her. When the cobra runs for her life, she goes like a whip-lash flicked across a horse's neck.How does the antagonist move the plot forward in this excerpt?
Which sentence includes personification?
Read this excerpt from "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.""He saved our lives and Teddy's life,” she said to her husband. "Just think, he saved all our lives!”Rikki-tikki woke up with a jump, for all the mongooses are light sleepers."Oh, it's you,” said he. "What are you bothering for? All the cobras are dead; and if they weren't, I'm here.”Rikki-tikki had a right to be proud of himself; but he did not grow too proud, and he kept that garden as a mongoose should keep it, with tooth and jump and spring and bite, till never a cobra dared show its head inside the walls.How does the author use personification in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi."Teddy's eyes were fixed on his father, and all his father could do was to whisper, "Sit still, Teddy. You mustn't move. Teddy, keep still.” Then Rikki-tikki came up and cried: "Turn round, Nagaina; turn and fight!”"All in good time,” said she, without moving her eyes. "I will settle my account with you presently. Look at your friends, Rikki-tikki. They are still and white; they are afraid. They dare not move, and if you come a step nearer I strike.”Who is the antagonist in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.""I was not a day too soon,” he said; for he could see the baby cobras curled up inside the skin, and he knew that the minute they were hatched they could each kill a man or a mongoose. He bit off the tops of the eggs as fast as he could, taking care to crush the young cobras, and turned over the litter from time to time to see whether he had missed any. At last there were only three eggs left, and Rikki-tikki began to chuckle to himself, when he heard Darzee's wife screaming.How does the author use personification in this excerpt?
Which character is the protagonist in "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"?
Which words spoken by the muskrat Chuchundra best show the author’s use of personification?
Read this excerpt from "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi."Nag coiled himself down, coil by coil, round the bulge at the bottom of the water-jar, and Rikki-tikki stayed still as death. After an hour he began to move, muscle by muscle, toward the jar. Nag was asleep, and Rikki-tikki looked at his big back, wondering which would be the best place for a good hold. "If I don't break his back at the first jump,” said Rikki, "he can still fight; and if he fights—Oh, Rikki!” He looked at the thickness of the neck below the hood, but that was too much for him; and a bite near the tail would only make Nag savage."It must be the head,” he said at last; 'the head above the hood; and when I am once there, I must not let go.”Then he jumped. The head was lying a little clear of the water-jar, under the curve of it; and, as his teeth met, Rikki braced his back against the bulge of the red earthenware to hold down the head.How does the protagonist move the plot forward in this excerpt?
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