This device is to be used under no circumstances when we are reading aloud in class.
What is a cell phone?
Every full sentence must include at least these two phrases.
What are subject/noun phrase and predicate/verb phrase?
The author of this short story.
Who is Langston Hughes?
These was the most common expectation for women until (at least) the late nineteenth century?
What is being a housewife?
The full name of the person that dies at the end of the story.
What is Mrs. Louise Mallard?
The name of the teacher in this class (Not my nickname).
What is Mr. Cuellar
This literary device was used by Ernest Hemingway in the following line:
"The cafe was like a battleship stripped for action"
What is a simile?
Roger wishes to thank Mrs. Jones for this reason
What is trusting him despite his actions?
The ratification of this amendment guaranteed women's right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The type of characterization used in "Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble".
What is direct characterization?
The precise location at Wagner High School where our learning takes place on the daily.
What is room B205?
The setting and characters are introduced in this part of the plot.
What is an exposition?
The full name of the woman who showed kindness to Roger
Who is Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones?
This timespan is called the Progressive Era.
What is the 1890s-1920s?
The progression of Mrs. Mallard's reaction to her husband's death.
What is at first she is overcome with grief, but soon she realizes that his death will allow her to
lead an independent life?
The number one expectation in this classroom.
What is respect?
The three essential parts of any written response.
What are claim, evidence, and reasoning?
This factored heavily into Mrs. Jones accepting Roger and choosing to help him.
What are Mrs. Jones' own troubled past of theft and worse.
The quote "A wife should act openly and honorably in regard to money matters, keeping an exact account of her expenditures, and carefully guarding against any extravagances" suggests that women should do the following.
What is not spending any money (on themselves)?
The line
"There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and piled one above the other in the west facing her window."
suggests the following about Mrs. Mallard's stage of grief.
What is she is starting to realize that her troubles were gone with the passing of her husband and that there are better days ahead.
This specific event takes place every day from 12:39pm-1:09pm in the Wagner HS cafeteria.
What is "C-Lunch"?
Carefully crafted but subtly implied inferences drawn by the audience through the minute diction, actions, and words of people that populate a novel.
What is indirect characterization?
The theme of the short story is best described as this.
What is People are more likely to learn and practice good behavior when it is taught to them with kindness.
These were among the contributing factors to the passage and ratification of the 19th Amendment.
What are protests, the role women played for prohibition, and World War I?
The observation "Story of an Hour" makes about marriage from the perspective of a woman.
What is marriage is inherently oppressive and some women may only escape it through death?