The Landlady
Monkey's Paw
Tell Tale Heart
Soft Rains
Lit Terms
100
A dog, a parrot, and two previous guests.
What is the objects that the landlady has stuffed in her bed and breakfast?
100
The Monkey's Paw screenplay was based upon the original story written by this author.
Who is W.W. Jacobs?
100
"A pale blue, with a film over it," is the description of this person's body part.
What is the old man's eye?
100
These robotic "rodents" clean up after breakfast.
What are mice?
100
A figure of speech in which an object is spoken of as if it had human qualities.
What is personification?
200
Bath, England.
Where is the bed and breakfast located?
200
He said, "The first owner had three wishes, yes. I don't know what the first two were for, but the last was for death. That's how I got the paw."
Who is Morris?
200
"Would a __________ have been as smart as this?"
What is a madman?
200
There were no "gods" left to occupy the house because of this unfortunate event.
What is a nuclear war?
200
A person who tells the story is referred to as this.
What is the narrator?
300
A seventeen year old businessman who is looking for a place to stay.
Who is Billy Weaver?
300
The game that was being played on the night of Morris's stormy arrival.
What is chess?
300
This was hidden under the floorboards.
What is the old man's dismembered body?
300
"At ten o'clock the house began to die." This event caused a slow and painful death for the house.
What is a fire?
300
The uncertain anxiety a reader feels while reading.
What is suspense?
400
The tea served by the landlady tasted faintly of this.
What are bitter almonds?
400
This is what the second "W" stands for in W.W. Jacob's name.
What is Wymark?
400
This famous author married his young cousin in 1831.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
400
"And spring herself, when she woke at dawn would scarcely know that we were gone," is the last line of this author's poem.
Who is Sara Teasdale?
400
The use of clues or hints suggesting events that will occur later in teh plot.
What is foreshadowing?
500
Christopher Mulholland and Gregory W. Temple.
Who were the other two guests to sign the guestbook?
500
He wanted to show that fate ruled people's lives.
Who is the holy man that cursed the monkey's paw in India?
500
This character could best be described as "unreliable."
Who is the narrator?
500
These famous last words were uttered by the house.
What is "Today is August 5, 2026."
500
A contrast between expectation and reality.
What is irony?
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