Characters
Literary Devices
Potpourri
Characters 2.0
Plot Twists
200

Struggles to understand why we are cruelest to the ones we love most.

Who is Brother?

200

"I remember his sweaty brow seemed to weep at my every move." This is an example of ________.

What is personification?

200

This assertion is an example of which literary device? "Love is a battlefield."

What is a metaphor?

200

Unknowingly consumes the evidence of the crime he's investigating.

Who is Jack Noonan?

200

The General decides that _____________ will be the huntee, rather than the hunter.

Who is Rainsford?

400

Pregnancy is one of the reasons this character kills.

Who is Mary Maloney?

400

The death of the scarlet ibis serves to _____________ the death of little Doodle.

What is foreshadow?

400

Read this sentence: About which literary device is Alanis Morissette, a Canadian pop/alternative artist from the 1990s and 2000s, crooning about?

What part of speech is the italicized portion of the sentence? 

What is an appositive?

400

Dies in a trap intended to kill his employer.

Who is Ivan, the Cossack

400

Mary Maloney is prompt to kill her husband after he reveals that ___________.

What is "leaving her?"

600

A national chess champion who doubts a woman will ever win the title.

Who is Bobby Fischer?

600

In addition to being the protagonist, Montresor is also a/an _____________ in "The Cask of Amontillado."

What is an unreliable narrator?

600

What does Della gift Jim in "The Gift of the Magi?"

What is a chain for his pocket watch?

600

Learns the art of invisible strength.

Who is Waverly Jong?

600

Montresor kills Fortunato because ___________.

What is he wronged him.

800

Loans out a piece of costume jewelry.

Who is Madame Forestier?

800

The black satin of the jewel case in "The Necklace" is an example of a/an _______________.

What is a symbol/symbolism?

800

*IT'S THE DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!*

Listen to this clip.

About which literary device is Alanis Morissette, a Canadian pop/alternative artist from the 1990s and 2000s, crooning about?

What is irony!

800

The first character to understand the irony of the Christmas gifts.

Jim Dillingham Young

800

The author leaves us to infer the cause of death of ________ in "The Scarlet Ibis."

Who is Doodle?

1000

Dresses like a fool, and is played like a fool.

Who is Fortunato?

1000

*DAILY DOUBLE*

Listen to the song clip.

Name one literary device depicted in this song.

What is hyperbole, personification, and simile?

1000

Mary Maloney feeds _____________ to the police officers.

What is lamb?

1000

A brutal man with sharp teeth and blood-red lips.

Who is General Zaroff?

1000

The climax of "The Necklace" is when we learn that ______________.

What is "the necklace was fake all along."

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