Short Stories
An ordinary food forms the basis of this extraordinary story by Margaret Atwood.
What is "Bread"?
The detectives do this to a murder weapon in Roald Dahl's "Lamb to Slaughter."
What is eat it?
In Of Mice and Men, Lennie always does this to dreams.
What is kill them?
Mary Malone kills this person in "Lamb to Slaughter."
Who is her husband Patrick?
My daughter is as smart as a whip.
What is a simile?
A "poor" woman realizes how rich she was.
What is "The Necklace"?
This important object turns out to be a fake.
What is a necklace?
In Of Mice and Men, puppies and mice symbolize this size of dream.
What is small?
The victim of famine in "Bread" wonders whether to eat the bread or give it to this starving person.
Who is the sister?
Life is a tapestry, and we are the threads.
What is a metaphor?
A little girl enrolling at school discovers her mother can't do this in "The First Day."
What is read?
At the end of "The Most Dangerous Game," the reader wonders if this character has taken over for General Zaroff.
Who is Sanger Rainsford?
In Of Mice and Men, Curley's wife symbolizes this.
What is the real world?
The last thing the little girl hears at the end of "The First Day" are these.
What are her mother's footsteps?
Charlie Brown never manages to outwit the kite-eating tree.
What is personification?
A group of boys hunt pheasants to save them in this short story.
What is "The Ice Storm"?
After Lennie's death, Slim offers this to George.
What is a drink?
In Of Mice and Men, god symbolically appears as this character.
Who is Slim?
Sanger Rainsford is the protagonist of this story.
What is "The Most Dangerous Game."
The football team destroyed the other players and crushed them into the ground.
What is hyperbole?
A coat from this colorful type of predator transforms its owner in a South American story.
What is a red fox?
At the end of the story "Bread," the food in question does this above the table.
What is hover?
In Of Mice and Men, many names begin with C as a reference to this biblical character.
Who is Cain?
In Of Mice and Men, these two characters are missing hands.
Who are Candy and Curley?
The sunset erupted volcano orange across the sky.
What is a metaphor?