"Retrieved Reformation"
"The Black Cat"
Parts of a Story
Parts of Speech
Vocab
100
This is the REAL reason Ralph Spencer was going to Little Rock.
What is giving his burglar tools to his friend?
100
This is the name of the narrator's cat.
What is "Pluto?"
100
This is the part of the story where all of the problems have been solved and we're looking at the new situation.
What is the resolution?
100
This part of speech includes words like "compassion," "hunger," "democracy," and "relationship."
What is a noun?
100
This is the general attitude or feeling of a piece.
What is tone?
200
This is how "Ralph Spencer" learned the shoe business.
What is going to prison?
200
This is the first way the narrator abuses a cat.
What is cutting out its eye?
200
This is the part of the story where you learn the setting and are introduced to the characters.
What is exposition?
200
This part of speech includes words like this. And that. And those.
What is a pronoun?
200
If someone says "I am literally dying," they are probably being this.
What is figurative?
300
This happened to Jimmy when he "forgot what he was... and became another man."
What is falling in love?
300
The night that the narrator hangs the cat, this happens.
What is a housefire?
300
This is the time of the biggest problem in a story, or when all the problems happen at once.
What is the climax?
300
This is the part of speech for words like, "are," "were," and "was."
What is a verb?
300
This is a conclusion one reaches from context clues.
What is an inference?
400
This is the part of the story where Ralph Spencer has to reveal his true identity to his fiance in order to save a little girl.
What is the climax?
400
This is where the narrator writes his story.
What is from jail?
400
This word describes the narrator in "The Black Cat" and Jimmy Valentine, both "bad guys."
What is a protagonist?
400
This part of speech includes words like "fabulous," "disastrous," "fierce," and "grotesque."
What is an adjective?
400
This is what "thrifty" and "stingy" have in common.
What is denotation?
500
"Love can change a person" might be a good one for this story.
What is a theme?
500
This is why our narrator may not be reliable.
What is alcoholism or insanity?
500
"Love" is a bad one. "Love stinks" is a good one.
What is a theme?
500
This part of speech includes words like "always," "often," and "never."
What is an adverb?
500
Three of the qualities that a theme must have.
What is be a sentence, be an opinion, be applicable to the real world, be the message or moral of a story.
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