Crazy Characters
Tricky Terminology
Spectacular Stories
Vocabulary
All Mixed Up!
100
She was the "Golden Girl".
Who was Anna?
100
These are the four types of conflict.
What are self vs self, self vs another, self vs society and self vs nature?
100
This short story ends in a cliffhanger.
What is "The Interlopers"?
100
This is the term that means "to take a big drink or gulp".
What is draught?
100
This is what the watermelon symbolized in "The Taste of Melon".
Answers can vary.
200
Out of the five stories, which narrator was the most unreliable?
Who was Donna from "Golden Girl"?
200
These are the two settings in a story.
What are physical and chronological?
200
One theme in this story is "appearances can be deceiving" as you would have never expected this kind of behaviour from this main character.
Who is the murderous Mary Maloney?
200
This is a sheath for a sword.
What is a scabbard?
200
This was the physical setting of "Lamb to the Slaughter".
What is England/Britain?
300
He was the "interloper".
Who was Georg Znaeym?
300
These are the three types of irony.
What are verbal, situational and dramatic?
300
She was described as being a "wraith" of a woman.
Who was Mrs. Wills?
300
This is an angry look.
What is a glower?
300
This story had the most modern chronological setting.
What was "Golden Girl"?
400
This was the emotion Michael told Donna he felt as he witnessed Anna dancing with Mr. McCallum.
What is embarrassment (for Anna)?
400
This is the highest point of tension in a story.
What is the climax?
400
In what story does the weather really add to the atmosphere?
What is "The Interlopers"?
400
This term means peaceful.
What is placid?
400
This is what Mary tries to create by going to the grocery store at the supposed time that Patrick was murdered.
What is an alibi?
500
He was the character who was asked what had gotten him into such a "swivet".
Who was the narrator from "The Taste of Melon"?
500
This is the second part of the plot diagram, where we, the readers, are introduced to the "problem" and where the story really starts to "take off".
What is the inciting incident?
500
This was the very important response given to King Arthur from the Loathly Lady.
What is "what all women most desire is to have their own way"?
500
This term means to have good judgment.
What is judicious?
500
This word is used in literature to describe hints of what is to come.
What is foreshadowing?
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