The NecKlace
These two characters are the protagonists in "The Necklace."
Who are Mathilde Loisel and her husband?
This protagonist falls off a yacht and ends up on Ship-Trap island.
Who is Sanger Rainsford?
The main character of a story, often the "hero."
Who is the protagonist?
This character is the protagonist's younger brother, born with a physical disability.
Who is Doodle?
This character is the antagonist who is lured into the catacombs by his own vanity.
Who is Fortunato?
This is Mathilde's primary internal conflict in the story which is rooted in the belief that she deserves a better life.
What is Mathilde versus her social class?
This conflict type is best illustrated by Rainsford’s struggle against the jungle and the sea.
What is Man vs. Nature?
The event that sets the central conflict in motion.
What is the inciting incident?
This story takes place between 1911 and 1918.
What is the setting?
Montresor toasts to Fortunato’s "long life" while leading him to his death, an example of this literary term.
What is verbal irony?
The fact that the necklace was a fake is an example of this literary term.
What is irony?
This is the dramatic climax of the story.
What is the final confrontation when Rainsford surprises Zaroff in his bedroom?
The perspective from which a story is told (e.g., First Person).
What is Point of View?
The death of this exotic bird symbolizes and foreshadows Doodle's own death.
What is the Scarlet Ibis?
This is the damp, dark setting where Montresor carries out his revenge.
What are the catacombs?
Before it is lost, the necklace serves as a symbol for this.
What is wealth and high social status?
This giant, mute assistant to Zaroff is the first to die in Rainsford's traps.
Who is Ivan?
An object, person, or situation that has another meaning other than its literal one.
What is symbolism?
The Narrator admits that this emotion—a "knot of cruelty"—was his primary motivation for helping Doodle.
What is pride?
The theme of the story revolves around this act of "punishing with impunity."
What is revenge?
Mathilde borrows the necklace from her wealthy friend.
Who is Madame Forestier?
This literary term describes the "blood-warm waters" and "moist blackness" that establish the story's mood.
What is imagery?
A struggle between two opposing forces.
What is conflict?
This is the specific location, or setting, where the Narrator teaches Doodle to walk and swim.
What is Old Woman Swamp?
The story is told as a flashback, as Montresor is recounting these events this many years later.
What is fifty years?