the unexpected twist at the end of the story which goes contrary to the reader's expectations
What is a surprise ending?
100
"A nice Smith is still a Smith. You keep your eyes open, dear - you'll see."
What is "The Unerring Instinct"?
100
the era during which "The Pit and the Pendulum" is set
What is the Spanish Inquisition?
100
the character who died at the end of "The Open Boat"
Who is the oiler?
200
the author of "Rip Van Winkle"
Who is Washington Irving?
200
the attitude or emotion of the author toward his subject or audience
What is tone/mood?
200
"Times grew worse and worse... as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."
What is "Rip Van Winkle"?
200
the third section of "Rip Van Winkle" emphasizes the changes in America after this war
What is The American Revolution?
200
the sisters who Mrs. Trimble was helping in "The Town Poor"
Who are the Bray sisters?
300
the author of "The Unerring Instinct"
Who is Thornton Wilder?
300
what happens in a story
What is plot?
300
"In them were no considerations of Mediterranean cruises, of soporific Southern skies or drifting in the Vesuvian Bay. Three months on the Island was what his soul craved."
What is "The Cop and the Anthem"?
300
the last name Belinda Watson was taught to fear in "The Unerring Instinct"
What is "Smith"?
300
what the poet brought home with him at the end of the great Carbuncle
What is ice?
400
the first popular short story writer
Who was Washington Irving?
400
the meaning of the story
What is the theme?
400
"For it is affirmed, that, from the hour when two mortals had shown themselves so simply wise as to reject a jewel which would have dimmed all earthly things, its splendor waned."
What is "The Great Carbuncle"?
400
According to "The Open Boat", we are slaves to this
What is fate/nature?
400
the character who wanted to fill his family vaults with his prize in "The Great Carbuncle"
Who is Lord DeVere?
500
the author of "The Great Carbuncle"
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
500
the point of view from the all-knowing author's point of view
What is the omniscient point of view?
500
"It was hope that prompted the nerve to quiver - the frame to shrink. It was hope - the hope that triumphs on the rack - that whispers to the death-condemned even in the dungeons of the Inquisitions."
What is "The Pit and the Pendulum"?
500
The theme of "The Great Carbuncle"
What is "motive reveals character"?
500
The character that represented the author in "The Open Boat"