During much of the year, male deer in northern states live peacefully together, belying the drama that is to come. In spring and summer, they share the same tranquil
resting and feeding areas, capitalizing on the bounteous vegetation. It is when the days
shorten that their behavior changes, as they focus on a biological mission to find mates.
The peacefulness is broken by clashing antlers as the bucks fight to establish dominance
over one another.
What technique of fiction is used to give a plot structure to this account of deer behavior?
1
The first sentence foreshadows the conflict that unfolds in the final
sentence of the passage.
The story takes a dramatic and surprising shift with the action that is
described at the end.
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3
3
The deer are personified with human-like characteristics to give them
heroic tendencies.