Click Clack
The main characters in "Click Clack the Rattlebag"
This is the setting of "The Landlady."
What is a bed and breakfast?
The title of the story is important because it reveals this detail.
These are elements of a good gothic lit story.
What is a dark/eerie setting, tons of suspense and tension, a fear of the unknown, and/or supernatural creatures?
This is the definition of tone.
What is the author’s attitude or feelings of the story?
The monsters do this to their victims whenever they catch them.
What is drink their blood/turn them into rattlebags?
List two characters in the story.
*Bonus: what is the narrative perspective?
Who is Billy Weaver and the Landlady?
*Bonus: third-person limited
This is how the police destroyed the evidence.
What is the cops ate it?
This is how foreshadowing creates tension in gothic literature.
*Bonus: what is foreshadowing?
What is it builds anticipation, creates an atmosphere of dread, and shows us what might happen to the characters?
*Bonus: hints to reveal something that happens later in the story
This is the definition of characterization.
*bonus if you can tell me the types of characterization.
What is the process by which an author reveals a character's personality, behavior, and attributes (how the author describes the character)?
*bonus answer: direct and indirect.
This is what the audience is left on at the end of the story.
*hint: starts with a "c"
What is a cliffhanger?
The landlady's behavior suggests this about her character.
What is the landlady’s overly friendly and controlling behavior suggests she is hiding something sinister beneath her polite exterior? *or something close to it
The tone of the story.
What is dark, eerie, sad?
The setting in all three stories can be described as this.
What is ordinary, but something bad ends up happening?
This is the definition of irony.
*bonus: what are the three types of irony?
What is a difference between what is expected to happen and what actually happens creating a surprising or humorous effect?
*bonus: dramatic, verbal, situational
The tone of "Click Clack" is...
what is eerie, suspenseful, or sinister? *other answers may be acceptable based on teacher discretion*
This type of irony is used in the story.
What is dramatic irony?
(What does dramatic irony do for us in the story?)
Discuss the characterization of Mary Maloney in "Lamb to the Slaughter."
What is Mary Maloney is characterized as a devoted and loving wife whose persona shifts dramatically after her husband's shocking news, revealing a darker, more calculating side?
This is a common theme in all three stories.
What is looks can be deceiving, don't trust anyone?
What is a reference to something well known?
In "Click Clack," tension is created by this.
What is the fear of the unknown?
The literary device is used to create suspense in "The Landlady"
What is foreshadowing? *other answers acceptable based on teacher discretion.
The literary technique to that shows us Mary's state of mind when she kills her husband.
What is stream of consciousness?
("ok, she thought, so I killed him," on the way home from the store, etc.)
This is what all antagonists (villains) in each story have in common.
What is they all look innocent but are not?
This is how you define literary techniques/devices.
What are specific methods or tools that writers use to create certain effects in their writing and convey meaning, enhance the story, or evoke emotions in the reader?