The Story of An Hour
Louise Mallard is the main character of The Story of An Hour, which is also known as this.
What is the protagonist?
Patrick Maloney is this in Lamb to the Slaughter, or in opposition to the protagonist.
What is the antagonist?
Sixteen is the number of these in The Joy Luck Club.
What are chapters?
This is the name for the end of a narrative.
What is resolution?
This is the name for what an author is trying to prove.
What is claim?
Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with this in The Story of An Hour.
What is heart trouble?
This is the author of Lamb to the Slaughter.
Who is Roald Dahl?
The swan feather is an example of this literary device in The Joy Luck Club.
What is symbolism?
This is when an author introduces background information at the beginning of a story, but it can occur at any point in the story.
What is exposition?
This is used to support reasoning.
What is evidence?
The phrase "monstrous joy" from The Story of An Hour is an example of this.
What is an oxymoron?
Mary killing Patrick in Lamb to the Slaughter is one example of this or a moment in which the tension is highest.
What is the climax?
This is the type of conflict Ying-Ying struggles with in her chapter of The Joy Luck Club called The Moon Lady. (Hint: the answer is phrased as "character vs. ?")
What is character vs. soceity? (Gender norms/societal expectations)
This literary device refers to when authors make comparisons between people, places, or things to larger ideas and concepts.
What is metaphor?
A thesis statement contains these two things.
Louise Mallard descends the stairs in this way in The Story of An Hour.
What is like a goddess of victory?
The audience not knowing what Patrick Maloney says to Mary Maloney is an example of this literary device.
What is ambiguity?
This is the type of conflict between Lindo Jong and Waverly Jong in The Joy Luck Club. (Hint: The answer is phrased as "character vs. ?")
What is character vs. character?
This literary device refers to when an author describes a person, place, or thing with enough detail to create a picture in the audience's mind.
What is imagery?
This is when the author of an argument addresses an opposing view or claim.
What is counterclaim/counterargument?
"Marriage is oppressive" represents this type of literary device in The Story of An Hour.
What is a theme?
The author describes Mary Maloney in a saccharine way at the beginning of Lamb to the Slaughter, which is an example of this.
What is tone?
This is the privilege and oppression that the mothers and daughters in The Joy Luck Club encounter when their social and personal identities overlap.
What is intersectionality?
This is when you describe something instead of outright explaining something in creative writing.
What is "show, don't tell"?
This is when the author of an argument disproves the counterclaim/counterargument.
What is refutation/rebuttal?