"Don't Pick up Hitchhikers" and things Mother warned you
Odds and Ends
100
This is where the Raven sits.
What is the bust of Pallas (Athena) above the chamber door?
100
Mary Shelley was doing THIS when she first came up with the story of Frankenstein.
What was telling her husband and friends a ghost story?
100
This is the moral of most "three wishes" stories.
What is "You get what you ask for"?
100
This is the first "clue" that the reader gets indicating that something might happen to Adams on his trip.
What is his mother warns him not to pick up strangers?
100
This is the genre most commonly associated with stories like E.A. Poe's and the Monkey's Paw, that use dark images, crazy-insane characters and classic themes?
What is GOTHIC literature?
200
This is the reason that the man in the "Tell-Tale Heart" feels the need to kill the older man.
What is because of his vulture eye?
200
This fictional character may have been used as an inspiration for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein monster.
Who is Golem, or Tallus?
200
In "The Third Wish", the man wishes for this first.
What is a beautiful wife?
200
Adams notices this on the hitchhiker each time.
What are rain drops? (RAIN)
200
This reading or writing skill is used to help give "clues" to the events about to happen.
What is foreshadowing?
300
This lovely lady is lost, perhaps dead, in the poem, "The Raven".
Who is Lenore?
300
"Man-Made Monsters" is an example of this SPECIFIC genre. Give both the genre and subgenre.
What is Nonfiction/ Informative
300
This event happens at the CLIMAX of the story, "The Monkey's Paw"
What is when the old man makes the third wish and opens the door?
300
"The Hitchhiker" is an example of this SPECIFIC genre.(give both genre and subgenre)
What is Fiction/Radio Play?
300
These connections are made when you compare the two stories such as "The Monkey's Paw" and "The Third Wish"
What are Text-to-Text connections?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!! This type of word (part of speech) is frequently used by Edgar Allan Poe in his story, "The Tell-Tale Heart"? Hint: He uses it FREQUENTLY.
What are Adverbs (-ly words)?
400
When Mary Shelley wrote "Frankenstein" scientists during the mid to late 1800s were using this practice. It may have inspired Shelley to write the story.
What is they were using dead bodies or cadavers to study the human body?
400
The owner of the paw (previous to the Whites) tried this.
What is tried to destroy it?
400
In the story, "The Hitchhiker", this is when Adams realizes he is dead.
What is when he calls home?
400
The Main Character in the story "The Three Wishes" has this problem at school.
What is she is a bully/she is not well liked/she is not nice?
500
The narrator does this when hears the heart beating (or thinks he does).
What is the man give himself up?
500
These differences in SPEECH make Shelley's Monster different from the MOvie version.
What is the movie version mutters/Shelley's monster speak in complete sentences?
500
This is the result of the last wish in the story, "The Third Wish".
What is the man never makes the wish, he dies first?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!! This is the road that Ronald Adams traveling on throughout the story. HINT: One of the best eateries found on this road is The Crossroads Restaraunt.
What is Route 66?
500
This technique is used by writers to create images in your mind by the words and phrases they use.