Lamb to the Slaughter
Notes from a Bottle
Everyday Use
The Pedestrian
Miscellaneous
100
Mary Maloney's murder weapon.
What is a leg of lamb?
100
City that is flooded.
What is New York?
100
Possession Maggie and Dee both want.
What are Grandma Dee's quilts?
100
One of Leonard Mead's "regressive" tendencies.
What is walking outside OR not being married OR not owning a TV?
100
A story that makes fun of humans and their faults.
What is a satire?
200
Mary's alibi.
What is she was at the grocery store when her husband got killed?
200
Song from the sinking of the Titanic that one of the apartment tenants wants to sing as the flood creeps up to the roof of the building.
What is Nearer My God to Thee?
200
Dee's "new" name?
What is Wangero?
200
Who/what control's Leonard Mead's world.
What is technology/machines?
200
Type of characterization where the author TELLS you about a character.
What is direct characterization?
300
Possible reason Mary became upset with her husband (what he told her.)
What is he is leaving her?
300
What the adults do during the first few days of the flood.
What is drink and party?
300
Reason Dee changes her name.
What is she feels oppressed by the name Dee?
300
Reason Leonard Mead is the only one outside walking.
What is everyone is inside watching TV?
300
Type of characterization where the author SHOWS you what a character is like.
What is INDIRECT characterization?
400
Type of irony used when Mary knows the policemen are eating the murder weapon and they don't know.
What is dramatic irony?
400
Heavy object that is moved from floor to floor as the flood rises.
What is a piano?
400
Possible reason Maggie is so shy. Hint: Her appearance.
What is she was burned in a fire as a child?
400
What the "policeman" really is.
What is a robot/machine?
400
A person, group, or thing that is blamed for something in place of someone/something else getting blamed.
What is a scapegoat?
500
"He [Patrick] loves it [cheesecake]." This is an example of this literary device.
What is verbal irony?
500
When an author makes a reference to a historical event or other work of literature.
What is an allusion?
500
Item Dee takes from her mother's house that she intends to use as a centerpiece.
What is a butter churner?
500
Author's purpose for writing "The Pedestrian."
What is to warn people about being lazy and letting technology run their lives in the future?
500
Subtle overtone in a story that can strongly affect the reader's feelings.
What is mood?
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