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The attitude of the writer towards the subject matter.
What is tone?
100
The narrator or story teller
What is point of view?
100
No one wants to win this prize.
What is "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson?
100
"Barbie Doll"
What is a symbol?
100
What is an example of symbolism from the short story "A Good Man is Had to Find"?
What is the black car and the grave stones?
200
Description using the five senses.
What is imagery?
200
The place and time period of a story
What is setting?
200
The main character in this story was the equivalent of a mule.
What is "The Man Who Was Almost A Man" by Richard Wright?
200
"and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy"
What is a simile?
200
What does the red convertible symbolize?
What is the relationship between Lyman and Henry?
300
The voice or narration of a poem; can be the poet or persona
What is the speaker?
300
Imagery describing taste
What is gustatory ?
300
This short story used stream of consciousness to reveal plot
What is "Eveline" by James Joyce?
300
"Look out the saints are comin' through"
What is an allusion?
300
What story could be considered Cinderalla's fairy tale gone bad because of the falling action and ending.
What is "Desiree's Baby"?
400
Denotative and connotative word choice
What is diction?
400
A symbol associated with the allure of female sexuality
What is a yonic symbol?
400
What is the "The Necklace"?
The author of this short story with the theme of false values was Guy de Maupassant.
400
"and slowly I would rise and dress / leaving the chronic angers of that house"
What is personification?
400
This story centered around the death of Ted Lavender and the different perspectives of his death.
What is "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien?
500
A statement or phrase that on the surface seems contradictory but makes some kind of emotional sense
What is a paradox?
500
A contrast to the protagonist of a story
What is a foil?
500
"Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway
What story involved imagery of the other side of the tracks?
500
"there is nothing much I want to do / and too much / that has to be done"
What is a paradox?
500
What archetypal symbol does Frank respresent in the short story "Eveline"?
What is the knight in shining armor?
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