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The word that characterizes Roald Dahl's writing style.
What is simple?
Billy's best feature according to The Landlady.
What are his teeth?
The kind of characterization shown in how the reader analyzes The Landlady.
What is indirect characterization?
The way the eye simile made you feel.
What is like you're/Billy's being watched and or creeped out?
What is dotty?
The war in which Roald Dahl was a fighter pilot and a spy.
What is World War II?
What made Billy think the B & B was a good place when he looked through the window.
What is the presence of animals?
The parts of words that rhyme in an alliteration.
What are the first letters/sounds of the words?
The moment you began to distrust The Landlady and why.
What is surely one of various uncomfy moments from this weird old lady?
Hotels might have had a _________ to carry his bag, but Billy didn't get one at the B & B.
What is a porter?
The kind of ending "The Landlady" was originally going to have.
What is a supernatural/ghost ending?
The names of the other two victims of The Landlady.
Who are Christopher Mulholland and Gregory Temple?
What is the name of the moment wherein a character makes a mistake or a choice that they cannot go back from and changes the plot of the story?
The meaning behind striving to keep one's ideas as childish as possible.
What is keeping ideas simple and easily understood for success?
What is congenial?
The cultural figure for whom Roald Dahl wrote a surprising movie.
Who is James Bond? (You Only Live Twice)
What is briskness?
The term we use for a type of horror story that develops slowly to emphasize suspense and dread.
What is a slow burn?
Create a S.T.E.A.L. Chart for either Billy or The Landlady
Wow such British people?
You might think The Landlady is ______________ if she robbed her victims' bodies.
What is rapacious?
The kind of horror Roald Dahl was trying to teach a lesson about.
What is the horror in the comfortable?
Mr. Temple's best quality, according to The Landlady.
What is his smooth skin with no blemishes?
The literary term for a method of generating suspense wherein the audience learns something before the characters.
What is dramatic irony?
Recreate your three main paragraph topics of your essay.
{HOW does Roald Dahl build suspense}?
The Landlady puts on a ___________ for her guests, who must pass through the ________________ of her building to stay with her.
What is facade?