Figurative Language
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
The antagonist of this story
Who is General Zaroff?
The point of view this story is told from
What is first person point of view?
The Scarlet Ibis is a symbol of this character
Who is Doodle?
The main character of a story, typically "the good guy"
What is a protagonist?
A comparison without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
The main setting of this story
What is Ship Trap Island?
The primary motivation for the narrator
What is revenge?
"The last graveyard flowers were blooming, and their smell drifted across the cotton field and through every room of our house, speaking softy the names of our dead" is an example of this.
What is personification?
What is foreshadowing?
Giving human characteristics to something inhuman
What is personification?
The part of the story in which Rainsford sleeps in Zaroff's bed
What is the resolution?
The type of conflict that occurs in this story
What is person vs person, external?
The background information at the start of the story, when the narrator tells us about himself and his brother Doodle
What is exposition?
The part in the story in which there is a turning point, and the conflict is, or is about to be, solved
What is climax?
the use of particular words to evoke an experience in our minds through our senses-sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.
What is imagery?
What the author is doing when Zaroff informs Rainsford he is a Cossack
What is direct characterization?
Montresor's black roquelaure symbolizes
What is death?
The type of conflict the narrator faces when he feels embarrassed by Doodle
What is an internal, person vs. self conflict?
The method in which the author shows things that reveal the personality of a character, through their speech and actions.
What is indirect characterization?
Repeated consonant sounds at the start of words
What is alliteration?
Rainsford is this kind of character who changes
What is a dynamic character?
When Fortunato says, "Enough, the cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough." it shows the following
What is irony?
Pride can have consequences.
What is a theme of the story?
What you expect to happen is the opposite of what actually happens in a story
What is situational irony?