Plot
Cinderella lost this on her final night of the festival.
What is her golden shoe?
In "The Tell-Tale Heart," these characters unknowingly cause the narrator to confess his crime.
Who are the police officers?
In "The Veldt," the lions symbolize what?
What is the parents' death?
In "Cinderella," this event spanned three days.
What is the ball?
In "The Tell-Tale Heart," this theme explores the thin line between these two states of mind.
What are sanity and madness?
In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,” this tradition continues even though its purpose seems senseless and its consequences are deadly.
What is the sacrificial stoning?
These creatures expose the stepsisters' deception in "Cinderella."
Who are the birds?
This symbol demonstrates Cinderella's continued connection to her mother.
What is the hazel tree at the mother's grave?
In "The Veldt," what is the name of the Hadleys’ futuristic home?
What is the Happylife Home?
In "Cinderella," the stepsisters' fate reinforces this theme about actions and consequences.
What is reaping what you sow (or karma)?
For this many nights, the narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" secretly watches the old man sleep.
What is seven nights?
In “The Lottery,” the villagers draw slips of paper, and this person is selected.
Who is Tessie Hutchinson?
In “The Lottery,” this object represents the villagers’ attachment to tradition, despite its worn and shabby condition.
What is the black box?
The dark and quiet setting in "The Tell-Tale Heart" helps create this literary element.
What is suspense?
In “Charles,” Shirley Jackson’s story suggests that Laurie’s behavior may reflect this uncomfortable truth about family life.
What is Laurie himself may be “Charles”?
This mysterious object found in the nursery suggests danger to the parents.
What is George's wallet (blood-stained items or personal belongings)?
These characters' inability to communicate openly reflects the emotional distance at the center of the story's conflict in "Hills Like White Elephants."
Who are Jig and the American?
Charles represents the gap between these two things.
What are appearance and reality?
This setting remains unseen for most of the story, contributing to the mother's misunderstanding of events in "Charles."
What is Laurie's classroom?
This theme in "The Veldt" is illustrated when machines replace human relationships.
What is the loss of family connection?
This discovery at the PTA meeting creates the story's surprise ending and reveals that Laurie has been describing his own misbehavior.
What is the discovery that Charles does not exist?
The children's names in "The Veldt" are an allusion to this famous story.
What is Peter Pan?
The fertile side of the valley and the dry, barren landscape symbolize these potential outcomes.
What is life and growth and emptiness or loss?
This is the time of year when the events of The Lottery take place.
What is June 27th?
In "The Lottery," the story suggests that ordinary people are capable of this when it is socially accepted.
What is cruelty (or violence)?