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This character walks with a limp.
Who is Ethan Frome?
100
This is the central conflict for the entire novella.
What is the love triangle.
100
The location where Ethan plans to receive an advancement of his earnings.
What is John Hale's Lumberyard?
100
Edith Wharton published this novella in this year.
What is 1911?
100
This is term for a writing style that includes melodrama and larger than life characters in ordinary settings.
What is local color?
200
This character has no place to go, should she leave town.
Who is Mattie Silver?
200
Mattie Silver defies Zeena by using this common household item.
What is a pickle dish?
200
This is the place where Zeena goes to visit a doctor.
What is Bettsbridge?
200
Wharton preferred this place over New England.
What is Europe (or Paris)?
200
When writers use this concept, they are evoking the five senses.
What is imagery?
300
This character stays up late because she feels so "mean."
Who is Zenobia Frome?
300
This is the time when we first discover Ethan's desire for Mattie.
What is when he observes her dancing with Denis Eady?
300
This is where Ethan once attended school for engineering.
What is Florida?
300
Wharton knew her husband was involved in this situation.
What is an affair?
300
The name of the town is an example of this literary concept, which demonstrates the community's bleakness and overall sense of dread.
What is allegory?
400
This character serves as a landlady to the narrator.
Who is Ruth Hale?
400
Ethan fears Mattie is secretly in love with whom?
Who is Denis Eady?
400
This is where Ethan goes to think about his family conflicts.
What is his workshop?
400
Like many writers, Wharton used this as a basis for this novella.
What is her own life's experiences?
400
This literary device defines the writer's use of one object representing something beyond itself.
What is symbolism?
500
This character drives Zeena to Bettsbridge.
Who is Jotham?
500
This is the reason Ethan married Zeena.
What is he was afraid to weather a Starkfield winter alone?
500
Where is the site of the "smash up"?
What is the big elm?
500
Wharton believed that the best romance was this.
What is illicit?
500
When a writer is using human-like qualities to describe an inanimate object, he/she is using this literary concept.
What is personification?