People, Places, and Things
Landlady
Elements of Plot
Theme
Suspense and Foreshadowing
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

In the beginning, Billy believes that the Landlady is kind. What is a quote that he uses to describe her as kind?

"She seemed terribly nice. She looked exactly like the mother of one’s best school-friend welcoming one into the house to stay for the Christmas holidays. Billy took off his hat, and stepped over the threshold " (Dahl, 3). 

100

What is the definition of suspense?

When the author makes the reader feel like something bad is about to happen

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

At the end of the story, Billy did not learn a lesson. What lesson should Billy have learned?

Do not trust random strangers before you get to know them

200

What is the definition of foreshadowing 

When the author gives the reader clues as to what will happen later in the story

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

What is the resolution of the Landlady? You will have to infer. 

Billy dies because the tea was poisoned 

300

What was one clue that Billy should have listened to?

-stuffed animals 

- Temple and Mulholland are still in the Bed and Breakfast

- Temple and Mulholland sound familiar to him because they are missing 

- The tea tasted funny 

- the house smelled like a hospital

- she was waiting for him by the door 

-Landlady knew that Temple did not "have a blemish on his body.. he skin was like a babies"

300

How does Dahl use Temple and Mulholland as foreshadowing in The Landlady

Temple and Mulholland are both missing and likely dead upstairs. Billy will probably have the same fate. 

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

Define the word theme and how we find it

Theme is the lesson that the reader is supposed to learn. We find the theme by looking at the lesson the characters had to learn and then rewording their lesson to fit everyone. 

400

What is one example of how Dahl uses supense in the The Landlady?

- when Billy is trying to figure out where he knows the names Temple and Mulholland 

- When Billy is being compelled to go into the bed and breakfast instead of going to the Bell and Dragon

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

What is the theme of the Landlady and how do you know?

The theme of the Landlady is to not judge a book by its cover. Billy immediately trusted the Landlady because she seemed old and nice, but he ignored all the red flags and in the end did not survive. 

500

Give an example of Foreshadowing in the story 

student choice 

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