People, Places, and Things
Landlady
Elements of Literature
Vocabulary
Misc.
100
The name of our main character
Who is Billy Weaver?
100
This is the way Billy believes successful businessmen walk and act.
Brisk, briskly
100

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?

Resolution

100
These are the fronts of buildings.
Facades
100
The age of Billy Weaver.
What is seventeen?
200
The two names in the guestbook at the Landlady's Inn
Who are Christopher Mulholland and Gregory Temple?
200
This is the only thing the Landlady asks Billy to do before going to bed.
Sign her guestbook
200

When Billy arrives and begins to search for a place to stay, the Landlady is in this stage

What is exposition?

200

Someone who is respectful or agreeable

Congenial

200

The Landlady continues to do what to Billy that makes him a bit suspicious.

Call him the wrong name, force him to sign the book, try and force him to drink tea

300
Billy Weaver decides to stay at the Landlady's Bed & Breakfast rather than this place.
What is the Bell and Dragon?
300
The Landlady's perfect guest is like this.
Handsome
300

When Billy realizes that the Landlady has stuffed her parrot and dog, the plot is in which stage?

Climax

300
A peculiar smell seemed to ______ from her person.
Emanate
300
Roald Dahl uses this to give his readers a sense of what is to come
What is Foreshadowing?
400
These two pets comfort Billy when he sees them in the window but he realizes later something is not quite right with them.
The dachshund and the parrot.
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.
Jack in the box
400

When Billy decides to stay at the Bed and Breakfast, the story is in this plot stage.

Rising action

400

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?

400

The number of people the landlady murdered.

What is 2?

500

How much does the landlady charge for the room?

Five and sixpence a night

500
The Landlady explains that her previous guests have never...
Left, they are upstairs
500

When tension increases rapidly.

What is suspense?

500

Ebenezer Scrooge of A Christmas Carol is an example of this kind of person.

What is rapacious?

500

What the landlady did with the bodies.

Stuffed them

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