Plot
These are the fronts of buildings; Can also refer to facial expressions:
congenial, conjured, emanate, facades, rapacious.
What are facades?
These two common household pets first comfort Billy, and then point to the fate that he will share with them.
What are the dog and the bird? The dachshund and the parrot.
This is a literary element provided by the author that allows you (the reader) to predict future events.
Example: "I stuff all my pets when they die."
What is foreshadowing?
One possibility for this stage of plot occurs when Billy learns that the dog and bird are stuffed. Another possibility is when Billy drinks the tea and realizes something is in the tea that should not be there.
What is the climax?
Someone who is respectful or agreeable:
congenial, conjured, emanate, facades, rapacious.
What is congenial?
Billy meets ____ other tenants in the boarding house.
What is 0?
This is a specific example from the short story "The Landlady" of an external conflict.
Answers may vary. Example: The landlady poisons Billy. (man vs. man)
This is the stage of plot when we can assume that Billy dies of poison and gets stuffed by the landlady.
What is the resolution?
Means to spread, flow, or come forth:
congenial, conjured, emanate, facades, rapacious.
What is emanate?
Billy goes to Bath, England for _________.
What is a business trip or work?
This is the reason authors and directors use foreshadowing.
What is to create suspense and / or make the story more interesting?
The is the stage of the plot when Billy meets the landlady and immediately sees that she is a bit strange.
What is rising action?
A child who refuses to share his toys with his siblings might be called this:
brisk, compelling, congenial, conjured, emanate, facades, rapacious, swanky
What is rapacious?
Name one other work written by the author of "The Landlady," Roald Dahl.
Answers may vary:
Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, BFG, James and the Giant Peach, The Twits, etc.
This is an internal conflict in "The Landlady."
Answers may vary. Example: Billy debates whether to stay at the Bell and Dragon or the bed and breakfast.
If a wizard created a spell, s/he did this to it:
congenial, conjured, emanate, facades, rapacious.
What is conjured it?
This is the time of day when Billy arrived in Bath.
What is evening (9 p.m.)?
This is the main conflict in "The Landlady."
What is Billy may become suspicious and leave (man vs. himself), which would ruin the landlady's plans.