Short Stories
Definitions
Literary Devices
Plot
Miscellaneous
100

General Zaroff hunts this.

What is humans?

100

Point of view using he/she/they pronouns but only tells one character's perspective.

What is third person-limited?

100

Montresor telling his own story is this kind of POV.

What is 1st person?

100
The highest emotional point in the story
Climax
100

Conversation in writing is called this.

What is dialogue?

200

Mary Maloney uses this to kill her husband.

What is a frozen leg of lamb?

200

A conflict inside of yourself.

What is internal?

200

This symbolizes Doodle.

What is the scarlet ibis?

200
Events leading to the climax
What is rising action?
200

The name of the formatting we use for formal writing. (3 letters)

What is MLA?

300

The author of "The Cask of Amontillado."

Who is Edgar Allen Poe?

300

The emotional atmosphere created for the reader.

What is mood?

300

The reader knowing Montresor is planning his revenge is this type of irony.

What is dramatic?

300

Can be considered the letdown of the story's events.

What is the falling action?

300

We read this many fictional short stories this quarter.

What is 5?

400

The title of the story where the princess sends her lover to a door.

What is "The Lady, or the Tiger?"?

400

Hints and clues in a text.

What is foreshadowing?

400

Fortunato's name is this kind of irony.

What is verbal?

400

Sometimes contains the solution to the conflict.

What is the resolution?

400

The contest-winning personal narratives were from this publication.

What is the NY Times?

500

The narrator's name in "The Scarlet Ibis."

What is he is unnamed? (He is never named.)

500

Point of view where the narrator is "all-knowing."

What is third person omniscient?

500

Name a possible theme statement for one of the short stories we read this quarter.

(Various answers.)

500

The exposition includes these 3 things.

What is characters, setting, and needed background information?

500

The name of our vocab book.

What is Sadlier?

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