Short Stories
In this story, a hunter becomes the hunted on a mysterious island.
What is The Most Dangerous Game?
This story takes place on Ship-Trap Island, an isolated and eerie location surrounded by the sea.
What is The Most Dangerous Game?
This type of sentence has one independent clause and no dependent clauses.
What is a simple sentence?
This type of noun names a general person, place, thing, or idea—like “teacher” or “school.”
What is a common noun?
What is the name of the main character who receives a mysterious letter in the mail?
Who is Mack (Mackenzie Allen Phillips)?
This story ends with a twist when the main character discovers that the necklace she borrowed was actually fake.
What is The Necklace?
These are the people, animals, or beings that take part in the story's action.
What are characters?
This sentence has two independent clauses joined by a conjunction like “and” or “but.”
What is a compound sentence?
Words like “he,” “she,” “I,” and “they” are what type of pronoun?
What are personal pronouns?
In Chapter 3, where does the family go on a trip when tragedy strikes?
What is Wallowa Lake / a camping trip?
In Thank You, Ma’am, what does Mrs. Jones do that surprises Roger after he tries to steal her purse?
What is she takes him home, feeds him, and talks to him kindly?
In The Necklace, name two key events that happen in the rising action leading up to the climax.
What are: (1) Madame Loisel borrows the necklace, and (2) she attends the ball and loses it?
This type of sentence has one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
This noun names a group made up of multiple members, like “team” or “family.”
What is a collective noun?
What is “The Great Sadness”?
What is the deep grief and depression Mack feels after Missy goes missing?
In The Cask of Amontillado, what is Montresor’s motivation for killing Fortunato?
What is revenge for an insult?
This element describes the main struggle or problem in the story, which can be internal or external.
What is the conflict?
This type of sentence contains two or more independent clauses and at least one dependent clause.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
Which type of pronoun points out specific things, like “this,” “that,” “these,” and “those”?
What are demonstrative pronouns?
What does the mysterious letter Mack receives say, and who is it from?
What is “It’s been a while. I’ll be at the shack next weekend if you want to get together. –Papa”?
Name one example of irony found in The Necklace or The Cask of Amontillado.*
The Necklace: The necklace was fake (situational irony).
The Cask of Amontillado: Fortunato’s name means “fortunate,” but he meets a tragic end (verbal irony).
This story teaches that vanity and pride can lead to unnecessary suffering and regret.
What is the theme of The Necklace?
Identify the sentence structure: “Because it was raining, we stayed inside, and we played board games.”
What is a compound-complex sentence?
This type of noun refers to something you can’t physically touch, like “freedom” or “love.”
What is an abstract noun?
How does Mack’s relationship with God begin to change by the end of Chapter 4?
What is he becomes more emotionally distant and begins to question his faith?