DELLA MY DARLING
WHAT TYPE OF IRONY DOES THE FOLLOWING QUOTE REPRESENT IN "GIFT OF THE MAGI"?
“Will you buy my hair?” asked Della. “I buy hair,” said Mrs. Sofronie. “Take your hat off and let me look at it.” Down fell the brown waterfall. “Twenty dollars,” said Mrs. Sofronie, lifting the hair to feel its weight. “Give it to me quick,” said Della.
DRAMATIC
WHAT WAS THE MOOD IN THE EXPOSITION OF "STORY OF AN HOUR"? WHY?
IT WAS SAD BECAUSE MRS. MALLARD WAS JUST TOLD THAT HER HUSBAND DIED IN THE TRAIN CRASH.
EXPLAIN WHY MS. STRANGEWORTH HAD A PERSON VS SOCIETY CONFLICT.
AT THE END OF THE STORY, IT WAS REVEALED TO THE COMMUNITY THAT SHE WAS EVIL, THEREFORE THE READER CAN INFER THAT MOVING FORWARD, NO ONE WILL LIKE HER.
WHO WAS THE PROTAGONIST IN "THE LOTTERY" (FIRST AND LAST NAME)
TESSIE HUTCHINSON
IN "DESIREE'S BABY" HOW DID THE AUTHOR FORSHADOW IN THE EXPOSTION THE SITUATIONAL IRONY THAT WAS USED AT THE END?
SHE REVEALED THAT DESIREE'S ORIGIN WAS OBSCURE. NO ONE KNEW WHERE SHE CAME FROM, SO IT WAS EASY TO ASSUME THAT DESIREE WAS THE ONE WHO WAS BLACK.
WHAT DID DELLA'S HAIR AND JIM'S WATCH SYMBOLIZE?
THEIR POVERTY AND SACRIFICE
WHAT TYPE OF IRONY DOES THE FOLLOWING QUOTE REPRESENT? WHY?
"Free! Body and soul free!" she kept whispering.
DRAMATIC, NO OTHER CHARACTERS KNEW THAT MRS. MALLARD WAS CELEBRATING BEING FREE FROM HER HUSBAND AND MARRIAGE.
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS EVIDENCE REPRSENTS IN THE STORY.
Miss Strangeworth’s usual stationary was heavy and cream-coloured, with “Strangeworth House” engraved across the top, but, when she felt like writing her other letter, Miss Strangeworth used a pad of various-coloured paper, layered in pink and green and blue and yellow; everyone in town bought it and used it for odd, informal notes and shopping lists…
DRAMATIC IRONY, NO ONE IN TOWN KNEW THAT SHE WAS WRITING EVIL ANONYMOUS LETTERS
WHY WAS THE MOOD CAREFREE AND HAPPY IN THE EXPOSITION OF THE STORY?
EVERYONE GATHERED, TALKED, LAUGHED AND PLAYED AS IF THE LOTTERY WAS SOMETHING GOOD.
WHICH THEME DOES THE FOLLOWING EVIDENCE HELP SUPPORT?
In silence he ran his cold eyes over the written words. He said nothing. “Shall I go, Armand ?” she asked in tones sharp with agonized suspense. “Yes, go.” “Do you want me to go?” “Yes, I want you to go.” He thought Almighty God had dealt cruelly and unjustly with him; and felt, somehow, that he was paying Him back in kind when he stabbed thus into his wife’s soul. Moreover he no longer loved her, because of the unconscious injury she had brought upon his home and his name.
IF YOU TRULY LOVE SOMEONE UNCONDITIONALLY, IT SHOULD NOT MATTER WHAT RACE THEY ARE.
HOW WAS SITUATIONAL IRONY USED IN THE STORY?
MRS. MALLARDS ROOM SYMBOLIZED THE ISOLATION SHE FELT WITHIN HER MARRAIGE AND HOW SHE HAD TO EXPLORE HER TRUE FEELINGS IN PRIVATE.
LOUISE SYMBOLIZED THE FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE THAT SHE GAINED IN HER ROOM. SHE WAS RE-INTRODUCED TO READERS AS AN UNMARRIED WOMAN.
WHAT DID HER ROSES SYMBOLIZE?
HER PERSON VS SELF CONFLICT, AND HOW SHE FELT LIKE THE TOWN BELONGED TO HER BECAUSE OF HER FAMILY'S STATUS IN TOWN.
WHICH ELEMENT DOES THE FOLLOWING QUOTE REPRESENT?
When he arrived in the square, carrying the black wooden box, there was a murmur of conversation among the villagers, and he waved and called. "Little late today, folks." The postmaster, Mr. Graves, followed him, carrying a three- legged stool, and the stool was put in the center of the square and Mr. Summers set the black box down on it. The villagers kept their distance, leaving a space between themselves and the stool. and when Mr. Summers said, "Some of you fellows want to give me a hand?" there was a hesitation before two men. Mr. Martin and his oldest son, Baxter. came forward to hold the box steady on the stool while Mr. Summers stirred up the papers inside it.
MOOD SHIFT, IT BECAME TENSE WHEN THE BOX ARRIVED.
WHAT TYPE OF CONFLICT DOES THE FOLLOWING QUOTE DEVELOP FOR DESIREE? EXPLAIN
“My mother, they tell me I am not white. Armand has told me I am not white. For God’s sake tell them it is not true. You must know it is not true. I shall die. I must die. I cannot be so unhappy, and live.”
PERSON VS SELF BECAUSE SHE WOULD RATHER DIE THAN BE BLACK
HOW DID THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT IMPACT THE OVERALL CONFLICT?
THE STORY WAS SET DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION, THEREFORE THEY WERE POOR WHICH CREATED A PERSON VS SOCIETY CONFLICT.
WHICH TWO CONFLICTS WERE DEVELOPED WHILE MRS. MALLARD WAS ALONE IN HER ROOM?
SELF AND SOCIETY
WHAT WAS THE MOOD IN THE EXPOSITION OF THE STORY?
CALM, FREINDLY AND HAPPY.
WHICH ELEMENT DOES THE FOLLOWING QUOTE REPRSENT?
"I think we ought to start over," Mrs. Hutchinson said, as quietly as she could. "I tell you it wasn't fair. You didn't give him time enough to choose. Everybody saw that."
TESSIE'S PERSON VS SOCIETY CONFLICT
WHICH ELEMENT DOES THE FOLLOWING QUOTE REPRESENT? EXPLAIN
"Then a strange, an awful change in her husband’s manner, which she dared not ask him to explain. When he spoke to her, it was with averted eyes, from which the old love-light seemed to have gone out. He absented himself from home; and when there, avoided her presence and that of her child, without excuse. And the very spirit of Satan seemed suddenly to take hold of him in his dealings with the slaves. Désirée was miserable enough to die."
MOOD SHIFT, IT SHIFTED FROM HAPPY TO INTENSE.
EXPLAIN THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF THE STORY AND WHAT TYPE OF CONFLICT IT HELPED TO ESTABLISH.
DURING THE TIME PERIOD OF THE STORY, WOMEN HAD FEW RIGHTS AND WERE DEFINED BY THEIR HUSBANDS. THIS CREATED A PERSON VS SOCIETY CONFLICT FOR MRS. MALLARD AND ANY WOMAN WHO DID NOT DESIRE THIS TYPE OF SOCIETAL STANDARD.
WHICH TWO ELEMENTS DOES THE FOLLOWING QUOTE REPRESENT?
"She began to cry silently for the wickedness of the world when she red the words: Look out at what used to be your roses."
PERSON VS SOCIETY CONFLICT AND SITUATIONAL IRONY.
WHAT WAS THE OVERALL THEME OF THE STORY "THE LOTTERY"?
SOMETIMES BLINDLY FOLLOWING A TRADITION IS DANGEROUS.
WHICH ELEMENT DOES THE FOLLOWING QUOTE REPRESENT?
“But, above all,” she wrote, “night and day, I thank the good God for having so arranged our lives that our dear Armand will never know that his mother, who adores him, belongs to the race that is cursed with the brand of slavery.”
SITUATIONAL IRONY