Literary Elements
The Rocking-Horse Winner
A Shocking Accident
Shooting an Elephant
EXTRAS
100
This is the main idea or message of a literary work.
What is theme?
100
This is the best way to attain money says the mother.
What is luck?
100
This is the occupation of Jerome's father.
What is a travel writer?
100
This is when the narrator knew he needed to shoot the elephant.
What is he realized that the crowd expected him to shoot the elephant?
100
This is the word that best describes the feelings of the bus passengers toward the sobbing woman in "Empty Seat".
What is embarrassment?
200
This is a struggle between opposing forces.
What is conflict?
200
The mother raises her children our of a sense of this?
What is obligation?
200
This was the odd way that Mr. Wordsworth "shook with emotion" because of this emotion.
What is laughter?
200
This is the mood of the crowd as they follow the narrator through the streets.
What is festive?
200
This is the simple subject in the following sentence: The purple cat and hat were left in the booth.
What is cat/hat?
300
This is the feeling or atmosphere that an author creates in a literary work.
What is mood?
300
This is the reason Paul panics when his mom says she will send him to the seaside.
What is placing more bets?
300
This is way that Jerome's father actually dies.
What is a pig fell on him?
300
This is the author of Shooting an Elephant, War of the Worlds, and Animal Farm.
Who is George Orwell?
400
This is a reflection of a writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject of a poem, story, or other literary work.
What is tone?
400
This is the only person who knows that the horse helps Paul pick the winners.
What is Paul?
400
This is the type of person Sally is.
What is compassionate?
400
This is the author of Shooting an Elephant.
Who is George Orwell?
400
This is the type of animal that swoops in to eat the crops.
What are the locust?
500
This is a contrast between appearance and reality.
What is irony?
500
Vocabulary: This word means to say or do again; to repeat.
What is reiterate?
500
This is how Sally reacted to the news of how his father died.
What is with sincere shock?
500
This is how the narrator felt about shooting the animal.
What is foolish?
500
This is the complete predicate of the following sentence: The cow and the plate jumped over the moon.
What is jumped over the moon?
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