People, Places, and Things
Landlady
Elements of Plot
Type of Irony
Vocabulary
100
Christopher Mulholland and Gregory W. Temple.
What are the names in the Landlady's guestbook?
100
This is the way Billy believes successful businessmen walk and act.
What is brisk?
100
This is the point in a story with the greatest suspense, a turning point.
What is the climax?
100

When the audience knows something that the characters don't.

What is dramatic irony?

100
These are the fronts of buildings.
What are facades?
200
The town Billy arrives in at the beginning of the story.
What is Bath?
200
This is the only thing the Landlady asks Billy to do before going to bed.
What is sign the guestbook?
200
When Billy arrives in Bath and begins searching for a place to stay, The Landlady is in this plot stage.
What is the exposition?
200

When a character says one thing but means another.

What is verbal irony?

200
Someone who is respectful or agreeable.
What is a congenial?
300
Billy Weaver stays at the Bed and Breakfast rather than this hotel.
What is The Bell and Dragon?
300
The Landlady's perfect guest is like this.
What is handsome?
300
When the Sneetches learn to live together whether they have stars on their bellies or not, Dr. Seuss's The Sneetches is in which stage of the plot?
What is the resolution?
300

The type of irony when the landlady seemed so sweet that Billy wouldn't have thought that she was trying to poison him.

What is situational irony?

300
A peculiar smell seemed to ______ from her person.
What is emanate?
400
These two common household pets at first comfort Billy, then point to the fate he will share with them.
What are the dachshund and parrot? (Dog and Bird)
400
The Landlady is described as being like this common childhood toy because of the way she answers the door when Billy rings the bell.
What is a jack-in-the-box?
400
This stage of plot occurs in The Landlady between the times when Billy signs the guestbook and when he realizes the dog and bird are stuffed.
What is the falling action?
400

The type of irony shown when we know that Billy got poisoned and will eventually get stuffed when he dies soon.

What is dramatic irony?

400
Ebenezer Scrooge of A Christmas Carol is an example of this kind of person.
What is rapacious?
500
The tea Billy drinks has this taste, which avid mystery readers will recognize as a characteristic smell and flavor of cyanide.
What is bitter almonds?
500
These two WWII world leaders are described as being linked like the two men in the Landlady's guestbook. (Hint: One is a U.S. President, the other a British Prime Minister.)
Who are Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill? (FDR, Roosevelt, Churchill ok)
500
When Billy decides to stay at the Bed and Breakfast the story is in this plot stage.
What is the rising action?
500

The type of irony when the landlady said that the morning sun comes right in the window, but that means that Billy will never see the sun again.

What is verbal irony?

500
This word originates in Greek mythology with a king who was condemned to eternally stand in water he could never drink under a tree with fruit just out of his reach.
What is tantalizing?
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