The Lottery
Who is the author of The Lottery?
Shirley Jackson
What narrative technique refers to the perspective from which a story is told?
Point of view.
Who wrote The Tell-Tale Heart?
Edgar Allan Poe
What element of drama refers to the people who perform the roles in a play?
Characters.
An approach that examines text by considering the author's life experiences, beliefs, and values as context for the story's meaning.
Biographical Approach
What event takes place annually in the village?
The lottery.
What technique involves introducing hints or clues about events that will happen later in the story?
Foreshadowing
What physical feature of the old man does the narrator fear and obsess over?
His pale blue, vulture-like eye.
What element of drama refers to the time and place where the story occurs?
Ego Ideal and Conscience
Which character draws the first slip for his household and later participates in the final drawing that determines Tessie Hutchinson’s fate?
Bill
What narrative technique interrupts the present action to show an event that happened in the past?
Flashback
How many nights does the narrator secretly observe the old man before committing the murder?
Seven nights
What is the term for the spoken words exchanged between characters in a play?
Dialouge
Approach where factors such as class, gender, race, ideology, & historical period influences the creation of a text and its interpretation.
Sociocultural
What literary device is present when Shirley Jackson withholds the true purpose of the lottery until the final moments, causing readers to misinterpret the event beforehand?
Suspense
What narrative technique occurs when a story presents events out of chronological order, requiring readers to reconstruct the actual sequence of events?
Nonlinear narrative.
What literary term describes a narrator whose account of events cannot be fully trusted because of their distorted perceptions, bias, or questionable understanding of reality?
Unreliable narrator
What dramatic technique occurs when the audience possesses information that one or more characters do not know, creating suspense or tension?
Dramatic irony
The Historical Approach of The Lottery
American Cold War
Imagine a village continues an annual tradition that harms one innocent person, even though most villagers no longer remember why it began. If the villagers refuse to question the practice simply because their ancestors followed it, what central theme of The Lottery does this situation represent?
The danger of blindly following tradition and conformity.
The audience knows that a character is secretly being betrayed, but the character remains completely unaware as the story continues. What narrative technique is being used?
Irony
Imagine you are a police officer listening to the narrator confidently explain that he is perfectly sane. However, he begins describing the old man's heartbeat growing louder, even though no one else can hear it. What literary element does this situation demonstrate, and what does it suggest about the narrator?
An unreliable narrator and psychological conflict. It suggests that the narrator's perceptions may be distorted by guilt, fear, or mental instability.
A playwright creates a scene where two characters argue about a letter, while the audience already knows that the letter contains a secret that could destroy their relationship. How can the playwright use dialogue, dramatic irony, and pacing to intensify the scene's tension?
Dialogue can reveal conflicting emotions, dramatic irony allows the audience to anticipate the consequences, and pacing can gradually build suspense by delaying the revelation of the secret
In the Harry Potter Series, Harry represents what aspect of Psychological Approach according to Freudian Psychology?
Ego