Vocabulary
Vocab Cont.
Literature Terms
Plot
Grab Bag
100
Untidy, disordered
What is disheveled?
100
filled with horror or shock
What is aghast?
100
When and where the story takes place
What is setting?
100
What Monsieur Loisel was saving up to buy
What is a rifle?
100
Appearances can be deceiving
What is a theme in the short story?
200
a deep covered dish from which soup is served
What is a tureen?
200
fashionable
What is chic?
200
Reader’s response to the work
What is mood?
200
Mathilde is in a hurry to leave the party due to:
What is her shabby wraps?
200
The Loisels spent years paying off a replacement for a necklace that is in fact worthless.
What is situational irony?
300
expressing sorrow or regret
What is rueful?
300
property that a woman brought to her husband at marriage
What is a dowry?
300
The main character in a literary work
What is the protagonist?
300
Mathilde's reaction to the party invitation:
What is bursting into angry tears
300
“She tried on the jewelry before the mirror, hesitating, unable to bring herself to take them off, to give them back, and she kept asking, ‘Do you have anything else by chance?’” What literary technique is shown here?
What is Indirect characterization?
400
excessive admiration or praise
What is adulation?
400
a person who lends money at an unusually high interest
What is a ursurer?
400
Speaker or character who tells a story.
What is the narrator?
400
What she has and what she wants.
What is the reason Mathilde is unhappy?
400
Mathilde Loisel
Who is the protagonist of "The Necklace"?
500
courteous and thoughtful behavior, especially towards women.
What is gallantries?
500
the state of being annoyed, frustrated or worried
What is vexation?
500
The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character.
What is characterization?
500
Sleeping in a side room?
What is how Monsieur Loisel spent the night of the party?
500
Paris, France late 19th century
What is the setting in "The Necklace"?
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