Story Elements
The Landlady and Lamb to the Slaughter
Tell Tale Heart and The Monkey's Paw
Suspense Techniques
Miscellaneous
100
This story element consists of time and place.
What is setting?
100
This story element is when Billy thinks his tea tastes like bitter almonds.
What is climax?
100
This is the point of view in Tell Tale Heart.
What is 1st person?
100
Name the five suspense techniques we have talked about in class.
What is foreshadowing, fear of the unknown, irony, setting, and language?
100
Name the camera angle that looks directly down upon a subject or scene.
What is bird's eye view?
200
This is the turning point in the action or the highest point of tension in the story.
What is climax?
200
This story element in The Landlady is 'things are not as always as they seem'.
What is theme?
200
This is the antagonist in The Monkey's Paw.
What is the paw?
200
This suspense technique is when authors give clues as to what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
200
This camera shot shows part of a person's face or body.
What is extreme close up?
300
Name the point of view where the narrator is in the story and we get his or her thoughts.
What is 1st person?
300
Mary Maloney uses this to kill her husband
What is a leg of lamb?
300
This is the protagonist in Tell Tale Heart.
What is the narrator?
300
This type of irony is when the audience knows something that the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
300
Name the term that would describe the following: Corpse: rotting, gross, decrepit
What is connotation?
400
Name the point of view where the narrator is outside of the story and we only get one character's thoughts.
What is 3rd person limited?
400
This story element in The Landlady is when the landlady checks Billy out, show Billy to his room, and asks Billy to sign the guestbook.
What is rising action?
400
This story element is when Mr. White and Herbert are playing chess and Mr. White complains about where the White family lives.
What is exposition?
400
An example of this suspense technique is when the landlady states that she and Billy do not want to break any laws at this stage in the proceedings,
What is foreshadowing?
400
This camera shot shows a person's face, which allows viewers to better understand that person's feelings.
What is close up?
500
This is an author's take away message from a story or what the author wants readers to understand.
What is theme?
500
Mary Maloney leaves her home and goes to this place after killing her husband.
What is the grocery store?
500
This story element is when all three wishes from the paw are used up.
What is the resolution?
500
An example of this type of irony is when a police officer gets arrested for speeding.
What is situational irony?
500
Name the term that would describe the following: Book: a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers.
What is denotation?
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