Elements of a Short Story (1st 9 Weeks)
What do you call the time and place in which a story happens?
Setting
What happened to Edgar Allan Poe's wife Virginia?
Died of tuberculosis
What is the name for the way of living in Jonas's society? *The way they try to reach perfection*
Sameness
What is the term for the rhyme pattern in a poem?
Rhyme Scheme
Where am I going to take my horse?
To the old town road
Theme
What is the name of Poe's short story in which the narrator kills the old man he is taking care of?
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
What job assignment was Jonas given at the Ceremony of 12?
The Receiver of Memory
Where you look for rhyme scheme in poems?
At the end of every line
What happened to Edgar Allan Poe's biological parents?
Father abandoned them when Poe was very young
Mother died of tuberculosis
What do you call the order of events in the story? *can be plotted in a diagram*
Plot
What was the narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" obsessed with that caused him to murder the old man?
His "evil"/vulture eye
What is the name of the special secret guest at Jonas's home throughout the novel?
Gabe/Gabriel
What is the term for the poetic device of repetition of the same sound at the BEGINNING of words?
Alliteration
Sir Mix-A-Lot likes what and he cannot lie?
Big butts
What is the name for the ending of a story? *the last part of the plot diagram*
Resolution
Why did the narrator of "The Cask of Amontillado" bury his friend alive in the catacombs below his home?
His friend insulted him/he wanted revenge
What is the term for a society in which all imperfections have been eliminated? *Not Sameness*
Utopian society/utopia
What is the term for the literary device that imitates the sounds being made? *AKA Sound effects: BOOM!*
Onomatopoeia
What is the name for the type of imagery that describes the sense of touch?
Tactile
What is the name of the type of narrator that is a (main) character within the story? *Uses pronouns such as: I, me, myself, we, us*
1st Person Narrator
What is the term for the literary device used in horror stories to create suspense by having the audience know something the character(s) does not? *It is very DRAMATIC*
Dramatic Irony
What is the term for a genre of literature in which a horrible world is created in attempts to reach perfection?
Dystopian (literature)
Is the statement below a simile or metaphor and why?
"My new teammate is a snake in the grass!"
Metaphor because it compares two unlike things NOT using "like" or "as"
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
AABC DEFE