| A | B |
|---|
| exposition | John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror os superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures." |
| rising action | "...so we just had mother and Nellie and the children down for a week." |
| conflict | "John is a physician, and perhaps--perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster." |
| climax | "I am securely fastened now by my well-hidden rope." |
| falling action | "I kept on creeping just the same but I looked at him over my shoulder." |
| resolution | "Now why should that man have fainted?" |
| indirect characterization of John | "Bless her little heart... she shall be as sick as she pleases." |
| indirect characterization of the narrator | "If those heads were covered or taken off it would not be half so bad." |
