The tell-Tale Heart
Based on the test materials, this is the literary genre of "The Tell-Tale Heart."
What is a short story?
The literary genre of the excerpt from Monster.
What is a screen play?
The name for the worn, historic object from which the villagers draw slips of paper.
What is the black box?
The famous director who authored this essay on suspense.
Who is Alfred Hitchcock?
To accept or admit the existence or truth of something.
What is acknowledge?
Described as being like that of a vulture, this physical feature of the old man was the narrator's sole motivation for murder.
What is his vulture eye?
The single word O'Brien uses that shows she is not overly concerned with Steve's feelings.
What is "Whatever"?
Along with a ritual salute, this specific vocalization or movement by the lottery official was a part of the ceremony that had been forgotten over time.
What is the chant or ritual walk?
The genre of this piece of writing by Hitchcock.
What is an essay?
A formal written or spoken statement, especially one given in a court of law.
What is testimony?
This is the sound the narrator believes he hears, even after the old man is dead, which drives him to confess.
What is the beating of the old man's heart?
The character trait that best describes O'Brien, according to the test question.
What is pessimism?
Storing the black box in everyday places like a barn, post office, or grocery implies this about the tradition.
What is that the lottery is an accepted and mundane part of village life?
In Hitchcock's formula for suspense, this group is given a god-like omniscience, knowing the danger that the characters on screen do not.
Who is the audience?
This adjective describes something that is seeming reasonable or probable.
What is plausible?
The method the narrator used to conceal the body after the murder.
What is dismembering the body and hiding the pieces under the floorboards?
O'Brien defines her two-part job as making sure the law works for Steve and, more importantly, making him this in the eyes of the jury.
What is a human being?
Mr. Summers argued these were a necessary modern substitute for chips of wood as the village population grew past three hundred.
What are slips of paper?
According to Hitchcock, the questions that constantly pop up in the audience's mind reveal that suspense is best built when the audience does this.
What is trying to guess what will happen?
The narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" showed this quality when he confidently invited the police to sit directly above the hidden body.
What is audacity?
The narrator proves his unreliability by claiming preternatural hearing with this boast: "I heard all things in the heaven and in ___ ______.
What is "...the earth"?
O'Brien's focus on this demonstrates her professional detachment, prioritizing how Steve is perceived over how he feels.
What is the legal strategy and how he is perceived by the jury?
The general view of most villagers regarding the lottery, even though parts of the tradition have been lost.
What is that the current version of the tradition should be practiced?
The core of Hitchcock's method: achieving suspense by giving the audience information the characters don't have, making them feel all-knowing.
What is 'letting them play God'?
In "The Lottery," the villagers' participation could be described with this adjective, as it was a routine action done with little reflection on its horror.
What is perfunctory?