Threads of the Tale
Not to be confused with "Bubbles," this protagonist had a change of heart just before his arrest.
Soapy
Correspondent who wrote about his shipwreck in "The Open Boat"
The ridicule of human folly
Satire
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Mystery of the White Mountains
"The Great Carbuncle"
The number of men in "The Open Boat"
Four
The Bray sisters
First American short story writer and author of "Rip Van Winkle"
Washington Irving
The perspective from which a story is told
Point of view
"A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."
"Rip Van Winkle"
According to the author of "The Open Boat," what controls men?
This event is the setting of "The Pit and the Pendulum."
The Inquisition
Introduced the detective story and other disturbing tales
Edgar Allan Poe
An expression in which the intended meaning of the words used is the direct opposite of their usual sense
Irony
"No considerations of Mediterranean cruises ... Three months on the Island was what his soul craved."
"The Cop and the Anthem"
The member of the crew on "The Open Boat" that was injured
Captain
The crew member who died at the end of "The Open Boat"
The oiler
Used the surprise ending
O. Henry
The attitude of the narrator toward his subject or audience
"The wind brought the sound of the great sea's voice to the men on the shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters."
"The Open Boat"
This is (literally) the Great Carbuncle.
A gem
The theme of "The Great Carbuncle"
Motives reveal character
Authored a story about two elderly down-and-out sisters known as "The Town Poor"
Sarah Orne Jewett
The events and occurrences of a story
Plot
"The Pit and the Pendulum"
Two people who rejected the Great Carbuncle after it was discovered
Matthew and Hannah