TYW
What is the POV?
First person
Pluto
Some villages had given up the lottery
true
Personification is ______
Human characteristics to objects, animals, and ideas
1948, shortly after WWII
The narrator's husband and physician
John
Alcohol
During the lottery, all the townspeople pulled numbers from a black wooden box
False
Metaphor is _____
comparing one thing to another by stating they share the same qualities
The Black Cat and TYW were published during this time
1800s
How would you characterize the narrator's initial reaction to, and description of, the wallpaper?
she despises the wallpaper, it's ripped up, and dull, and an awful color
WHO does the narrator begin to treat badly first?
his wife
Mr. Martin was the winner of the lottery
false
Imagery is ______
visual symbolism/ figurative language that evokes a mental image (it describes)
Shirley Jackson published _____ and _______
"The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill House
Where the story takes place
a colonial mansion, estate, summer house, the narrator's room
How does Pluto die?
AFTER cutting out his eye, the narrator hangs Pluto from a tree
The time of day that the lottery began (include AM or PM)
10AM
Central idea
theme
Edgar Allan Poe enlisted in the army
true
A modern condition, that we now know may have been cause of the Narrator's detachment
postpartum depression
What is the significance of the cat being black?
Black cats are often thought of as bad luck (SUPERSTITION)
The person who conducted the lottery
Mr. Summers
idiom is _____
saying or expression
EX: spill the beans
I've got it in the bag
Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, talking about ________ was taboo
mental illness