The Lottery
This is the shocking ending of The Lottery.
What is Tessie is stoned to death?
This rhetorical device shows us who is telling the story.
What is Point of View?
This category of English words includes be, is, are, and was.
What are X-words?
This is where a story takes place.
What is setting?
This type of story is about people falling in love.
What is romance?
This is the year when The Lottery was written.
When is 1948?
This rhetorical device gives clues about what might happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
These words describe an adjective or a verb, often ending in -ly, like quickly, softly, very, and extremely.
What are adverbs?
These are the important people or animals in the story.
What are characters?
This type of story tends to be set in the future and include new inventions and technology.
What is sci-fi (science fiction)?
This is the author of The Lottery.
Who is Shirley Jackson?
This rhetorical device appears when what happens does not match what we expected.
What is irony?
These words describe where something is, such as on, in, under, above, and behind.
What are prepositions?
This is the feeling that the writing of the story makes the reader feel.
What is mood?
These are stories that include magic or are set in worlds with different rules than Earth.
What is fantasy?
This is the man who runs the lottery every year.
Who is Mr. Joe Summers?
This rhetorical device describes something by comparing it to something else.
What are metaphors and similies?
These can be added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning, like un-, mis-, pre-, dis-, and re-.
What are prefixes?
This is the most exciting and important part of a story.
What is the climax?
These stories are characterized by suspense, clues, and trying to figure out what happened.
What is mystery?
This is the oldest man in town, and the number of years has he done the lottery.
Who is Old Man Warner, and 77 years?
This rhetorical device gives human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
These can be added to the end of a word to change its meaning, like -ment, -ed, -tion, -er, and -able.
What are suffixes?
This is the part of the story that leads up to the most exciting and important part.
What is the rising action?
This genre of stories include texts that were written long ago and have become very important to American culture.
What are classics?