The answers:
doggedness, imminent, and precariously, in that order. These are all synonyms of the words they replace.
Various elements include exposition, the rising action, the climax, sometimes the peripeteia, and the falling action. After peripeteias come new climaxes followed by falling actions.
4. Tammy’s cough is getting worse, too.
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore—
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore—
Nameless here for evermore
Is it "like climbing mount everest" cause it say "hard"