Characters
Comprehension
Mix it Up
Who is this?
Vocabulary Terms
100

The princess views this person as competition in the story.

The lady

100

The reason the king didn't approve of the youth's love for his daughter.

What is because he was "of a lowness of station," he would not be a good match for a princess?

100

Give a example of rising action in lady and the tiger

What is the scene when the king finds out that his daughter loves/dates the courtier/man?

100

Frank R. Stockton

Who is the author of "The Lady or the Tiger?"

100
This term means "careful thought, especially in making a decision"
What is deliberation?
200
This character is described as "handsome and brave".
The young man.
200

This is the reason the princess is as powerful as her father.

What is she ALONE decides the result of the trial?

200

Explain why this is an example of verbal irony in the story: "it was the duty and the privilege of the person on trial to walk directly to these doors and open one of them” (361)

It is not a privilege nor should it be a duty to choose between a lady (which the person on trial may not want) or a tiger (which meant certain death).

200

"How her soul had burned in agony when she had seen him rush to meet that woman..."

Who is the princess

200
retribution
What is 'punishment'?
300
The King wants to put this person in the arena in "The Lady or the Tiger?"
The king's daughter's lover/ the young man
300

The prisoner have to do this, according to the king's system of justice

What is choose between one of two doors?

300
Why does the author use irony in the story? a) to help the reader identify with the characters. b) to tell us what might happen next. c) to confuse the reader. d) to encourage the reader to think.
d. to encourage the reader to think.
300

"...with bowed heads and downcast hearts, wended slowly their homeward way, mourning greatly that one so young and fair, or so old and respected should have merited so dire a fate."

Who are the crowd/the audience at the arena and their thoughts/opinions?

300

This word means concerned with notions such as the beautiful and the ugly. 

What is "Aesthetic"?

400

Describe the king's daughter.

jealous, barbaric

400

This choice determines the prisoner's guilt or innocence.

What is choose a door? If they choose the door with the lady, they are innocent. If they choose the door containing the tiger, they are guilty.

400
Why is the ending of the story ambiguous?
The ending of the story is ambiguous because it doesn't tell us which option the princess chose-- the lady or the tiger. The story leaves the ending up to the reader.
400

"...she was the apple of his eye, and loved by him above all humanity."

Who is the princess?

400
This word means "fair and unbiased."
What is 'impartial'?
500

Describe the king.

Barbaric, prone to elaborate fantasy, powerful, controlling

500

If the lady points to the door with the tiger.

What is the princess is jealous or she really believes her lover will be better dead than with another woman?

500

How the narrator implies that the princess is insecure.

What is the narrator describes how the princess has seen/imagined the lady and her lover throwing glances at each other or talking together in the past. The narrator says that the princess "hated the woman who blushed and trembled behind that silent door."

500

"...and the ranks of maiden youth and beauty throughout the land were carefully surveyed by competent judges..."

Who is the lady behind the door?

500

The meaning of exuberant.

What is "unrestrained and enthusiastic; overflowing?

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