The best description of the type of plot structure used by the author in this story is linear. Linear plot structure follows a straight path of events in a chronological order, which seems to fit the narrative setup presented in your excerpt.
Dusk
by H.H. Munro (Saki)
Norman Gortsby sat on a bench in the Park, with his back to a strip of bush-planted sward, fenced by the park railings, and the Row fronting him across a wide stretch of carriage drive. Hyde Park Corner, with its rattle and hoot of traffic, lay immediately to his right. It was some thirty minutes past six on an early March evening, and dusk had fallen heavily over the scene, dusk mitigated by some faint moonlight and many street lamps. There was a wide emptiness over road and sidewalk, and yet there were many unconsidered figures moving silently through the half-light, or dotted unobtrusively on bench and chair, scarcely to be distinguished from the shadowed gloom in which they sat.
The scene pleased Gortsby and harmonised with his present mood. Dusk, to his mind, was the hour of the defeated. Men and women, who had fought and lost, who hid their fallen fortunes and dead hopes as far as possible from the scrutiny of the curious, came forth in this hour of gloaming, when their shabby clothes and bowed shoulders and unhappy eyes might pass unnoticed, or, at any rate, unrecognised.
A king that is conquered must see strange looks, So bitter a thing is the heart of man.
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Use the passage to answer the question.
Which best describes the type of plot structure used by the author in this story?
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foreshadowed
foreshadowed
flashback
flashback
linear
linear
parallel
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Use paragraph 1 from “The Interlopers” to answer the question.
In a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Carpathians, a man stood one winter night watching and listening, as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come within the range of his vision, and, later, of his rifle. But the game for whose presence he kept so keen an outlook was none that figured in the sportsman’s calendar as lawful and proper for the chase; Ulrich von Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy. Which phrase most establishes tension?
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Ulrich von Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy
Ulrich von Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy
a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Carpathians
a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Carpathians
as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come within the range of his vision
as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come within the range of his vision
a man stood one winter night watching and listening
In a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Carpathians, a man stood one winter night watching and listening, as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come within the range of his vision, and, later, of his rifle. But the game for whose presence he kept so keen an outlook was none that figured in the sportsman’s calendar as lawful and proper for the chase; Ulrich von Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy. Which phrase most establishes tension?
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Ulrich von Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy
Ulrich von Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy
a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Carpathians
a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Carpathians
as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come within the range of his vision
as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come within the range of his vision
a man stood one winter night watching and listening
The phrase that most establishes tension is "Ulrich von Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy." This line indicates a sense of conflict and danger, elevating the tension by implying that there is an adversarial situation at play.
Use paragraph 2 from “The Interlopers” to answer the question.
The forest lands of Gradwitz were of wide extent and well stocked with game; the narrow strip of precipitous woodland that lay on its outskirt was not remarkable for the game it harboured or the shooting it afforded, but it was the most jealously guarded of all its owner’s territorial possessions. A famous law suit, in the days of his grandfather, had wrested it from the illegal possession of a neighbouring family of petty landowners; the dispossessed party had never acquiesced in the judgment of the Courts, and a long series of poaching affrays and similar scandals had embittered the relationships between the families for three generations. The neighbour feud had grown into a personal one since Ulrich had come to be head of his family; if there was a man in the world whom he detested and wished ill to it was Georg Znaeym, the inheritor of the quarrel and the tireless game-snatcher and raider of the disputed border-forest.
Which phrase is a signal that the story has moved backward in time?
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in the days of his grandfather
in the days of his grandfather
if there was a man in the world whom he detested
if there was a man in the world whom he detested
The forest lands of Gradwitz were of wide extent
The forest lands of Gradwitz were of wide extent
poaching affrays and similar scandals
The forest lands of Gradwitz were of wide extent and well stocked with game; the narrow strip of precipitous woodland that lay on its outskirt was not remarkable for the game it harboured or the shooting it afforded, but it was the most jealously guarded of all its owner’s territorial possessions. A famous law suit, in the days of his grandfather, had wrested it from the illegal possession of a neighbouring family of petty landowners; the dispossessed party had never acquiesced in the judgment of the Courts, and a long series of poaching affrays and similar scandals had embittered the relationships between the families for three generations. The neighbour feud had grown into a personal one since Ulrich had come to be head of his family; if there was a man in the world whom he detested and wished ill to it was Georg Znaeym, the inheritor of the quarrel and the tireless game-snatcher and raider of the disputed border-forest.
Which phrase is a signal that the story has moved backward in time?
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in the days of his grandfather
in the days of his grandfather
if there was a man in the world whom he detested
if there was a man in the world whom he detested
The forest lands of Gradwitz were of wide extent
The forest lands of Gradwitz were of wide extent
poaching affrays and similar scandals
The phrase that signals that the story has moved backward in time is "in the days of his grandfather." This phrase clearly indicates a reference to a past event, suggesting that the narrative is providing background information about the history of the land and the feud.
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