HMH Secret garden and plot

Match the following

• do not fully understand

• awakening

• wake someone up

• tendrils

• something that attaches two objects

• fastenings

• tangled mess

• Matted

• long thin sections of a plant that twist

• mysterious

Plot is how a narrative is _________.

Match the parts of Plot

• end of story

• exposition

• intensity decreases

• falling action

• beginning of story

• resolution

• builds suspense

• climax

• highest point of tension

• rising action

What is the conflict in The Secret Garden?

• Mary can't find the key to the garden

• Mary can't find the robin

• Mary is lonely

• Mary can't find the door to the garden

Put the events of Secret Garden in the order that they happened.

• Mary unlocks the door

• Mary felt like she found a world of her own

• Mary is skipping through the garden

• The wind blows the ivy

• Mary asks the robin where the door is

Answer should be in complete sentences and be more than one sentence.

Why does Mary feel as if she has "found a world all her own"?

Why can't Mary get into the Secret Garden at the beginning of the story?

• The garden is too far away.

• She can't find the entrance.

• Ben is hiding it from her.

• She does not have a key.

The story says that the heavy cover of ivy over the garden door was a “swinging curtain.” This  is an example of what figure of speech?

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

The story takes place both inside and outside the secret garden. How do these two settings compare?

• The garden is mysterious. The outside is familiar

• The garden is dangerous. The outside is safe.

• The garden is bright. The outside is dreary

• The garden is warm. The outside is cold.

The ​ (a)   is the beginning of the story.

• exposition
• Climax
• resolution