These are the parts of a story which raise the tension created by the conflict.
What are the rising actions?
100
This author was the only female author in our unit.
Who is Flannery O'Connor?
100
This character best fits the description of a bully.
Who is William?
100
This theme means to understand how someone else feels.
What is empathy?
100
Jimmy Valentine was sentenced to prison for this crime.
What is breaking into safes?
200
This is the part of a story represented by the words persuade, inform and entertain.
What is the author's purpose?
200
This author had great-grandparents that were slaves and great-grandparents that were slave-owners.
Who is Langston Hughes?
200
This character best fits the description of a juvenile delinquent.
Who is Roger?
200
This short story addresses the theme of hunting.
What is "The Most Dangerous Game"?
200
This is what you hear right before Prince Prospero dies.
What is a sharp cry?
300
This part of a story is where these words are found: "Why you're one of my babies. You're one my own children!" She reached out and touched him on the shoulder. The Misfit sprang back as if a snake had bitten him and shot her three times through the chest.
What is the climax?
300
This author was convicted of embezzlement.
Who is O. Henry?
300
This character said, "It's no pleasure in life."
Who is The Misfit?
300
This short story addresses the theme of human nature.
What is "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"?
300
This is the point of the story which Margot's classmates begin to feel some of her pain?
What is right after it starts raining again?
400
This part of a story is where these words are found: He barely managed to say "Thank you" before she shut the door.
What is the resolution?
400
Flannery O'Connor died of this disease.
What is lupus?
400
This is the name of Rainsford's foil.
Who is Whitney?
400
Besides empathy, this is a theme shared by the short stories, "A Retrieved Reformation," "Thank You, Ma'am" and "A Good Man Is Hard to Find".
What is crime and punishment?
400
This the specific ethnic group that Ivan and Zaroff are from.
What are the Cossacks?
500
This part of a story is where these words are found: There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution.
What is the exposition?
500
Flannery O'Connor loved to combine these two seemingly incompatible themes.
What are Christianity and horror?
500
This character could be described as 'ironically sophisticated'.
Who is General Zaroff?
500
This short story addresses the them of the value of human life.
What is "The Most Dangerous Game"?
500
This is a type of conflict shared by "Masque of the Red Death" and "All Summer In a Day".