Begins with I or S
Comparing two things using like or as
This character breaks the news of Mr. Mallard's death
Richards
This is the reason that Josephine is afraid to tell Mrs. Mallard that her husband died
Mrs. Mallard has a heart condition
This is how Mrs. Mallard feels after first experiencing the initial grief over her husband's death
Happy
Compares two things without using like or as by saying that one thing is another
Metaphor
Visually descriptive or Figurative language
Imagery
The story is in this type of narration
Third person limited
The climax of the story is
This is the person Mrs. Mallard decides to live for after she believes her husband is dead
Herself
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
Hyperbole
A phrase that you cannot take the literal meaning of
Idiom
"It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long. " Here, Shudder means..
"She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep." The type of figurative language used here is
This is what Mrs. Mallard says as she is looking out the window
"Free, Free, Free"
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what it is named
Onomatopoeia
When the audience expects something to happen and the opposite occurs
Irony
This is the author of the story
Kate Chopin
This is what "killed" Brently Mallard
A Railroad accident
This occurs immediately after Mrs. Mallard hears of her husband's "death"
She goes to her room and cries
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman
Personification
A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
"The Story of an Hour" was written in this century
19th
This device is used at the end of the story when the doctor says that Mrs. Mallard "died of heart disease - of joy that kills"
Irony
This happens when Louise sees Brently
She dies
When there are several different meanings or possible outcomes to an event in a story
Ambiguity