Short Story Characters
This is the reason her father wanted her to go to college.
What is to find a husband?
This is the problem the main character faces in Pancakes.
What is she is the only waitress and a huge bus of people comes in to eat?
In Death in the Rose Garden, Death Comes for him.
Who is the master?
It's the names of the two main characters in The Last Leaf
What are Sue and Johnsy?
Poems that don't rhyme are said to be written in this...
What is free verse or organic?
This is the first name of the girl who lived on Mango Street.
What is Esparanza?
It's the reason the tour guide shoots Eckles at the end of A sound of Thunder.
What is because he stepped off the path and altered the future?
In My Papa's Waltz, this made the small boy dizzy.
What is the whiskey on the father's breath?
It's the name of the person who shoots Eckles in A sound of Thunder.
Who is Travis?
When a poet uses exaggeration for emphasis or effect.
What is hyperbole?
This is the style in which she writes her stories and essays.
What is conversational or informal?
It's the outcome of The Raven at the end.
What is the Raven never leaves and neither do the speakers sorrows?
It is the smell that Miss Rosie is surrounded by now.
What is the smell of too old potato peels?
It's the name of the lost love of the speaker in The Raven
This is who the main character is named after in the House on Mango Street.
Who is Her great grandmother?
It's how much Mme. and M. Loisel pay for the replacement necklace.
What is 36,000 franks?
It is where the Tortoises end up at the end of the Elegy for the Giant Tortises.
What is in a museum?
It is the name of Jill's boyfriend in Pancakes.
Who is Allan Fienman?
This is what her name means in Spanish.
What is too many letters, sadness, waiting?
In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," this is two examples of irony.
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In "Today," name the tiny glass dome AND the large dome of blue and white.
What is a snowglobe and the world?