"Cask of Amontillado"
"Soft Rains"
"Harrison Bergeron"
"Interlopers"
Short Story Elements
100

What season did the story take place on? 

What is carnival season (before Lent/modern day Mardi Gras)? 

100

What YEAR did the story take place?

What is 2026?

100

What were Harrison's parents names?

What is Hazel and George Bergeron?

100

Who is the current owner of the forest?

What is Ulrich von Gradwitz?

100

Define foreshadowing 

What is giving clues or hints in indicate what is to come later on?

200

Define what amontillado is

What is wine?

200

At the beginning of the story, who is in the house? 

What is no one? 

200

Who was the Handicapper General?

What is Diana Moon Glampers?

200

How long has the two families dispute over the land taken place?

What is for three generations?
200

When does the inciting incident occur in the plot structure?

What is in between the exposition and rising action?

300

How long was Fortunato in the catacombs for?

What is 50 years?

300

Name ONE of the houses routine that it still completes despite the no one living in the house. 

What is making breakfast, cleaning, reading, making dinner, and/or controlling the lights? 

300

Who does Harrison Bergeron choose to be his Empress? 

What is a ballerina?

300

What does Ulrich offer Georg when they are trapped under the tree? 

What is wine?

300

Which figurative language device is the following quote: "Now the fire lay in beds, stood in the windows, changed the colors of drapes!" 

What is a personification?

400

Based on the following quote, what POV is the story told in?: "At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitively settled”

What is first person pov? 

400

What is the purpose/role of the robot mice? 

What is they are responsible for cleaning the house?

400

Name ONE crime that Harrison Bergeron is accused of?

What is plotting to overthrow the government and/or escaping from jail?

400

The following quote shows the story is in what point of view?: "The neighbor feud had grown into a personal one since Ulrich had come to be head of his family; if there was a man in the world whom he detested and wished ill to it was Georg Znaeym, the inheritor of the quarrel and the tireless game-snatcher and raider of the disputed border-forest."

What is third person omniscient point of view?
400

Define a round character 

What is a character who is complex, multifaceted, and/or well developed?
500

What does the following quote mean?: “I must not only punish but punish with impunity”

What is the narrator not only wants to get revenge, but also without any consequences? 

500

What is ironic about the survival of the house? 

What is the house survives a nuclear war, but not as something as simple as a house fire? 

500

What kind of writing does the author attempt to use in the short story that aims to mock people with humor?

What is satire?

500
Define situational irony

What is when the opposite of what is expected happens? 

500

True or False: The theme is the subject of the story.

What is false; the subject is related to the plot 

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