Authors
Person
Place
Things
ideas
100
Some of this author's unpublished work was found in a barn.
What is Shirley Jackson
100
Where the black cat was found at the end of the story
What is on top of the wife's corpse
100
The place where Mathilde most likely lost the necklace.
What is the Ministerial Ball
100
Laurie refused to wear this on the first day of school
What is overalls
100
Charles was spanked on the first day of school for being what?
What is fresh
200
Tried to commit suicide in 1892 and died in an insane asylum.
What is Guy de Maupassant
200
She was not content with her husband.
Who is Mathilde
200
The place Laurie behaved badly
What is Kindergarten
200
The amount of money the Loisels' paid for a replacement necklace
What is 36,000 francs
200
Finding out the necklace was not worth much money is an example of foreshadowing, irony or metaphor?
What is irony
300
Considered to be one of the fathers of the short story.
What is Guy de Maupassant
300
Who was with the narrator in "The Tell Tale Heart" when he confesses to the crime?
Who is "The police"
300
Where did the narrator kill the black cat?
What is hung him from a tree
300
In "The Tell Tale Heart" this drove the narrator mad
What is Vulture Eye
300
This story's theme is to always tell the truth.
What is The Necklace
400
This author married his cousin.
What is Edgar Allan Poe
400
Who is the narrator of the story "Charles"?
Who is Laurie's mother
400
The country that "The Necklace" has as its setting
What is France
400
In this story, the beating of a heart symbolizes guilt
What is The Tell Tale Heart
400
Walking into the cellar with an axe is an example of what literary device, foreshadowing, irony, or symbolism?
What is foreshadowing
500
Wrote a story called "Premature Burial" about someone being buried alive
What is Edgar Allan Poe
500
In the story "The Black Cat" what was the cat's name?
What is Pluto
500
Using what object did the narrator smother the old man in "The Tell Tale Heart"?
What is a bed
500
Mathilde's husband gave her money to buy a dress that he had been saving to buy, what?
What is a gun
500
One of this story's theme is Do not do something you might feel guilty about or have to hide.
What is The Tell Tale Heart
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