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In the "Tell-Tale Heart," what specific reason does the narrator give for wanting to kill the old man?
What is his pale blue, vulture-like "evil eye"?
The point of view used throughout "The Yellow Wallpaper", which traps the reader inside the narrator's subjective and unstable mind.
What is first-person point of view?
This nickname is used for the young female protagonist in the story, "Hills Like White Elephants".
Who is Jig?
This is the primary color of the despised wallpaper that dominates the narrator's environment in "The Yellow Wallpaper."
What is yellow?
What does the beating sound of the heart eventually symbolize in the story?
What is narrators guilty conscience?
In the short story "Charles," whenever anyone in Laurie's household makes a mess or acts up, they are said to be doing this.
What is "being a Charles"?
Because the narrator in "Tale Tell Heart" claims to be sane while acting completely unstable, he is known as this type of narrator.
What is unreliable narrator?
In Jackson's short story, Charles appears to undergo a temporary "reformation" when he becomes this person’s special helper for a week.
Who is the teacher?
In "Hills Like White Elephants" the story takes place in this temporary location.
What is a train station?
At home, Laurie mimics Charles's rowdy school habits by slamming doors and speaking rudely to this family member.
Who is his father?
In "The Yellow Wallpaper," the format in which the story is written, mimicking a private record of the narrator's thoughts.
What is a journal / diary?
This final phrase from the teacher at the end of the story shatters the narrator's entire point of view.
What is "We don't have any Charles"?
This specific number of times the daughter manages to interrupt or interject her own voice into her mother's long lecture in the story "Girl".
What is two?
Where does the arrogant narrator place his own chair when talking to the police in "Tale Tell Heart"?
What is directly above the hidden body beneath the floorboards?
In "The Yellow Wallpaper," this holiday marks the peak of the summer and the turning point where the narrator's obsession with the paper intensifies.
What is the fourth of July?
"Girl" challenges traditional storytelling rules by being written almost entirely as a single one of these punctuation-controlled units.
What is a sentence?
Aside from two brief interruptions from the daughter, this is the grammatical point of view (or voice) used by the mother to dictate commands in "Girl."
What is second-person (or the imperative mood)?
In "The Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator claims this specific sense became exceptionally sharp, allowing them to hear things in heaven, hell, and earth.
What is acute sense of hearing?
This country is the location of the train station where the couple is waiting in "Hills Like White Elephants."
What is Spain?
This author published the short story "The Lottery" one month prior to publishing the humorous short story "Charles" .
Who is Shirley Jackson?
While gazing across the desolate, dry valley of the Ebro, Jig makes a literal observation about the distant landscape that provides the story with this title.
What is "Hills Like White Elephants"?
The point-of-view used by Hemingway in "Hills Like White Elephants."
What is third person objective?
In "The Yellow Wallpaper" this mysterious name appears at the very end of the story, leading readers to wonder if it is the narrator herself or a fragment of her mind.
Who is Jane?
This is the Caribbean island where Jamaica Kincaid grew up and where "Girl" is heavily implied to be set.
What is Antigua?
This phrase is used to refer to a possession, project, or gift that costs a lot of money to maintain but provides little use or value to its owner.
What is "White Elephant"?