Vocabulary
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So I take phosphates or phosphites – whichever it is – and__________, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and am absolutely forbidden to ‘work’ until I am well again
Tonics
The narrator describes the curves in the wall-paper as “committing suicide” as they end. Which literary term is this an example of?
personification
Who is the author of “The Yellow Wall-paper”?
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
What does the writer do to relieve herself?
write
What does the narrator claim to see stooping in the wall-paper?
A woman
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I_____________ believe she thinks it is the writing which made me sick!
Verily
The narrator says, “John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in married.” What literary device is this an example of?
Irony
What is John’s occupation?
Doctor
What is odd about the windows in the room?
they have bars in front of them
What happens to John when he sees that his wife has torn off all the wallpaper and sees that she is “creeping” around the room?
He faints
I am sitting by the window now, up in this atrocious nursery, and there is nothing to ____________ my writing as much as I please, save lack of strength.
hinder
The narrator references to Dr. Weir Mitchell, an actual doctor in the 19th century. As discussed in class, what literary term is this reference an example of?
Allusion
The narrator discovers that the figures in the wallpaper are trying to escape but…what happens to them?
"They are cut off and strangled"
The narrator says that the room looks like what?
a playroom
The narrator says she is “Better in body perhaps—“but then her husband cuts of her off because what she is about to say is taboo. What can infer that she is about to say?
she is not better mentally
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A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic _____________ – but that would be asking too much of fate!
2. Personally I believe that _____ work, with excitement and change, would do me good.
3. I don’t feel as if it was worthwhile to turn my hand over for anything, and I’m getting dreadfully fretful and ________________.
1. felicity
2. congenial
3. Querulous
What does the color yellow symbolize in the story?
sickness
Why is the house standing empty after so many years?
there was legal trouble with heirs and coheirs
What name/s does John call his wife?
hint: it's 3 words
blessed little goose
What are the names of the two nannies?
Mary and Jennie
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One of those ___________ flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin.
It is as airy and comfortable a room as any one need wish, and of course, I would not be so silly as to make him uncomfortable just for a ____________.
1. Sprawling
2. Lurid
3. Whim
4. riotous
The narrator tells her husband that she “got out at last, in spite of you and Jane. And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!” What does author symbolically mean by this?
the narrator believes she is free from the constraints of her husband
At the beginning of the story, what does the narrator feel would be best for her?
"A little bit of work"
"The Yellow wallpaper" was inspired by an experience the author had while suffering from mental illness. What was the name of her doctor and what was her treatment?
Dr. Weir Mitchell & the rest cure.
Why doesn’t the narrator want anyone else to study the wall-paper?
She does not want anyone else to discover the things in the wallpaper