Smiling on the Inside
The painting that the people are waiting to destroy in "The Smile"
The Mona Lisa
Mary retrieves the murder weapon from this place in the house.
The freezer
The item Tommy finds in his attic.
A book
I'm so hungry; I could eat a horse.
Hyperbole
The punctuation mark used to indicate dialogue.
"The Smile" is an example of this type of fiction.
Dystopian
The occupation of Patrick Maloney
A detective
The person who comes to fix Margie's robot teacher.
The County Inspector
He's a snake.
Metaphor
The way to indicate the start of a new paragraph.
Indent
Three examples of things the people have destroyed in "The Smile"
Books, cars, factories
Mary decides to cover up the murder because she is worried about this person.
Her baby
"The Fun They Had" is an example of this genre.
Science fiction
The three types of irony.
Verbal irony, dramatic irony, situational irony
A sentence that keeps going without the use of punctuation.
Run-on sentence
Person vs. Society
The literary device that describes the detectives unknowingly eating the lamb at the end of the story.
Dramatic Irony
Margie's robot teacher malfunctions in this subject.
Geography
The wind whooshed past my face.
Onomatopoeia
The punctuation mark used to connect two independent clauses.
Semi-colon
The year in which "The Smile" takes place.
2061
The items that Mary Maloney buys when she goes to the grocery store in "Lamb to the Slaughter."
Potatoes, peas, and cheesecake
The year in which "The Fun They Had" takes place.
2157
The two types of third-person point of view.
Limited and omniscient
The grammatical error that involves incorrectly using a comma to connect two independent clauses.
Comma splice