What's the Word?
The Lady, or the Tiger?
Literary Terms
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Grab Bag
100

The experience was new or unusual. (Not the book)

What is novel?

100

What happened to a criminal in the kingdom of The Lady, and the Tiger?

What is a person a person must choose between two doors, one door containing a woman and the other containing a tiger?

100

What is a narrator?

Who is the person telling the story?

100

This is how many bones are in the human body.

What is 206?

100

How was guilt or innocence decided in the Middle Ages in England?

What is a practice known as an ordeal, where an accused person was physically tested, and the outcome determined guilt or innocence?

200

A struggle between two opposing forces, a literary word.

What is a conflict?

200

What question does the narrator ask at the end of the story?

Which came out of the opened door, --the lady, or the tiger?

200

What is repetition as a literary term?

What is repeating words, symbols, themes, or other parts of the story more than once?

200

This is the largest member of the cat family.

What is the tiger?

200

Who was thought to control the outcome of an ordeal in the middle ages?

What is a supernatural force?
300

A judge is supposed to not favor one side over the other when making decisions.

What is impartial?

300

What was the setting for the Lady, or the Tiger?

What is a fantasy setting, but very vague?

300

What two types of conflict are there and what is the difference?

What is external conflict and internal conflict? One is between a character and an outside force, such as another character, nature, society, or fate, and the other is takes place within the mind of a character who is torn between different courses of action.

300

This the highest mountain on the earth.

What is Mt. Everest 8,848m (29029ft).

300

What event occurred in the early history of the United State that used an ordeal as a way to test if a woman was a witch or not?

What is the Salem Witch Trials?

400

The situation for the lady was dreadful when she had to choose between two doors to survive.

What is dreadful or terrible?

400

What is the conflict of The Lady, and the Tiger?

What is a difficult choice that's a matter of life and death?

400

What is suspense?

What happens when the storyteller or narrator builds excitement in a scene, often prior to the climax?

400

She is known for her life long study of the behavior of chimpanzees in social situations as well as being a tireless animal rights advocate and humanitarian.

Who is Jane Goodall?

400

What type of animal was charged for murder, found guilty, and killed during the Middle Ages in France?

What is a sow or a pig?

500

The smoke came forth from the dragon, blackening the skies.

What is emanate?

500

Who wrote The Lady, or the Tiger?

Who is Frank R. Stockton?

500

What is sensory language as a literary term?

What is descriptive language that attempts to invoke one or more of the the five senses?

500

This percentage of Earth's oxygen is produced by the Amazon rainforest

What is 20%?

500

How were trades like being a cobbler or a blacksmith passed down in the Middle Ages?

What is they were passed down from generation to generation, so if you're father was a cobbler, you were a cobbler too?

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