Short Stories
The setting includes _____ and _____
What is time and place?
The overall message of the text
What is the theme?
A direct comparison that does not use "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
What is macabre?
The color of the box that holds slips of paper in The Lottery?
What is black?
Something that has another, deeper meaning or representation
What is a symbol?
A phrase that shows exaggeration that cannot possibly be true
What is hyperbole?
He is an ___________ for the homeless and donates regular to a local charity.
What is advocate?
During the hunt, how does Rainsford finally escape?
What is by jumping into the sea?
the author's voice or attitude
What is tone
Rainsford’s ____________ in the short story The Most Dangerous Game is General Zaroff.
What is antagonist?
Name that short story!
A woman gets upset that her employers have looked through her belongings.
What is An Upheaval?
The following is an example of ________.
Cruel Kindness
What is oxymoron?
The following is an example of ______.
The revolver went off with a concussion and the bullet whizzed past the sniper's head.
What is onomatopoeia?
Punk is a genre of music well known for the fact that it doesn't ________ social norms.
What is to conform to?
The city where The Sniper took place.
What is Dublin, Ireland?
The following is an example of ________.
That phone costs an arm and a leg.
What is an idiom?
The irony that occurs when the audience knows something that a character does not know.
What is dramatic irony?
to quote the words of a book or writer
What is cite?