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The Time, Place, and Weather are pieces of this.
The Necklace represents this
- Madame Loisel's desire
- Higher Social Status
- A finer life
Fear of the unknown causes people to make assumptions and reject what they do not understand
What is a central idea of They're Made of Meat?
The quote: “If Rosemary wanted to shop she would go to Paris as you and I would go to Bond Street. If she wanted to buy flowers… [she would say] ‘I want those and those and those. Give me four bunches of those. And that jar of roses. Yes, I’ll have all the roses in the jar.’” allows us to infer this
What is Rosemary's wealth?
The setting of The Necklace
What is the late 1800s Paris?
a person, place, thing or event that has meaning and stands for something beyond itself
what is a symbol?
This represents Rosemary's excessive wealth
What is the enamel box?
'“Every time you victimized someone,” I said, “you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you.”' represents this theme
What is the importance of empathy?
What can we infer from the end of Hey, Come on Out? (after the pebble)
That everything that has been tossed in the hole will fall from the sky.
This excerpt from Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. alludes to this setting, and the use of this genre.
"THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General."
What is futuristic/dystopian U.S.?
a main idea or message in a work of literature; a perception about life or human nature
What is Theme?
The Egg represents this
What is the world/universe
A central theme of "He-y, Come on Ou-t!"
- cyclical nature of life
- pollution of the earth
- absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence
- delayed consequences
What we infer when the speakers mark the sector as "unoccupied"
The speakers do not want to interact with beings that are made out of meat
The language used by John Updike in the excerpt below from A&P suggests what genre/tone?
"I stood there with my hand on a box of HiHo crackers trying to remember if I rang it up or not. I ring it up again and the customer starts giving me hell. She's one of these cash-register-watchers, a witch about fifty with rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows, and I know it made her day to trip me up. She'd been watching cash registers forty years and probably never seen a mistake before. ... By the time I got her feathers smoothed and her goodies into a bag -- she gives me a little snort in passing, if she'd been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem"
What is comedic?
the feelings and associations that a word may suggest
what is connotation?
This represents the 'game of life', the assertation of power and status.
What is the chessboard or chess game?
This excerpt from The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe shows this theme:
" It grew louder — louder — louder! And still the men chatted pleasantly, and smiled. Was it possible they heard not? Almighty God! — no, no! They heard! — they suspected! — they knew! — they were making a mockery of my horror! — this I thought, and this I think. But anything was better than this agony! Anything was more tolerable than this derision! I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer! I felt that I must scream or die! — and now — again! — hark! louder! louder! louder! louder! —
“Villains!” I shrieked, “dissemble no more! I admit the deed! — tear up the planks! — here, here! — it is the beating of his hideous heart!”"
What is the power of guilt?
When Rosemary changes her mind about helping Miss Smith, this is what the reader can infer
What is the inference that Rosemary became jealous of Miss Smith?
Explain the importance of the setting and tone of The Necklace
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a surprising, interesting, or amusing contradiction. This and its 3 types.
What is Irony?
Dramatic, Situational, and Verbal
This represents the Mme. Loisel’s embarrassment and social class
What is the wrap?
The excerpt below from Harrison Bergerson shows this theme:
""Yup," said George. He tried to think a little about the ballerinas. They weren't really very good-no better than anybody else would have been, anyway. They were burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in. George was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn't be handicapped. But he didn't get very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered his thoughts."
What is:
- consequences of hindering others for the sake of equality
- theme of equality
What can we infer about Madame Loisel's values from "The Necklace"?
She values:
- Others' opinions of her
- Material things
- Social Status
Explain the importance of the setting of The Rules of the Game
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