TYW
The Black Cat
The Lottery
KEY TERMS
Background Info.
100

What is the POV?

First person 

100
Name of the narrator's first cat 

Pluto 

100

Some villages had given up the lottery 

true 

100

Personification is ______ 

Human characteristics to objects, animals, and ideas 

100
The Lottery was published in ____ after _____

1948, shortly after WWII

200

The narrator's husband and physician 

John 

200
What causes the dramatic shift in the narrator's behavior? 

Alcohol 

200

During the lottery, all the townspeople pulled numbers from a black wooden box 

False 

200

Metaphor is _____ 

comparing one thing to another by stating they share the same qualities 

200

The Black Cat and TYW were published during this time 

1800s 

300

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 

300

WHO does the narrator begin to treat badly first? 

his wife 

300

Mr. Martin was the winner of the lottery 

false 

300

Imagery is ______ 

visual symbolism/ figurative language that evokes a mental image (it describes) 

300

Shirley Jackson published _____ and _______

"The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill House

400

Where the story takes place 

a colonial mansion, estate, summer house, the narrator's room 

400

How does Pluto die? 

AFTER cutting out his eye, the narrator hangs Pluto from a tree 

400

The time of day that the lottery began (include AM or PM) 

10AM

400

Central idea 

theme 

400

Edgar Allan Poe enlisted in the army 

true 

500

A modern condition, that we now know may have been cause of the Narrator's detachment 

postpartum depression 

500

What is the significance of the cat being black? 

Black cats are often thought of as bad luck (SUPERSTITION) 

500

The person who conducted the lottery 

Mr. Summers 

500

idiom is _____ 

saying or expression 

EX: spill the beans 

I've got it in the bag 

500

Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, talking about ________ was taboo 

mental illness 

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