Literary Devices
Vocabulary
The Lottery
A Prom Divided
Miscellaneous
100
the physical location, time, and social environment in which a story takes place.
What is setting?
100
rebellious or uncooperative
What is defiant?
100
the symbol in the story that represents tradition
What is the black box?
100
the group of community members who support segregated proms
What is the parents?
100
the "S" of SMART
What is sit up straight?
200
the feeling a text conveys to its readers
What is mood?
200
to forced separation of racial groups
What is segregation?
200
blindly following tradition leads good people to do bad things
What is the theme?
200
the name of the celebrity who funded an integrated prom in Mississippi
What is Morgan Freeman?
200
the color of Ms. Adams's coffee mug
What is orange?
300
a device the author uses to drop hints in the story about what is to come
What is foreshadowing?
300
Hitler's organized attack on the Jewish people of Europe
What is the Holocaust?
300
the man who has been participating in the lottery for over 77 years?
What is Old Man Warner?
300
the last year the school tried to host an integrated prom
What is 1995?
300
the level of talking while filling out your exit ticket
What is silence?
400
the ending of the story is the opposite of what you had originally expected
What is irony?
400
done routinely with little interest or care
What is perfunctory?
400
the victim of the lottery stoning
What is Tessie Hutchinson?
400
the name of the country in Georgia where the segregated prom is hosted
What is Montgomery County
400
the year school segregation was banned in the United States
What is 1954
500
an object or event that stands for or represents a different object, event, or idea
What is a symbol?
500
the statement at the beginning of a writing response that describes your argument for the reader
What is a claim statement?
500
"lottery in june, corn be heavy soon"
What is the reason for the lottery?
500
the best device the author uses to convey the theme of the article and her own opinion
What is quotations from parents and students
500
what the receipt represents in the imaginary court case
What is evidence in writing?
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