Antigone
This character represents the conflict between individual moral duty and state law.
Who is Antigone?
In "The Lottery," the black box symbolizes this.
What is tradition and ritual/death?
Guy Montag's job at the beginning of "Fahrenheit 451."
What is a fireman who burns books?
This technique creates shock in "The Lottery" by presenting the opposite of what readers expect.
What is Irony?
This happens when Douglass attempts to teach other slaves to read.
What is "white men break up the school"?
Antigone uses this argument to justify her disobedience to Creon's law.
What is "the gods' unwritten laws are more important than human laws"?
The beating heart in "The Tell-Tale Heart" most likely represents this.
What is the narrator's guilt?
Clarisse McClellan helps Montag realize this about himself.
What is that he is unhappy/unfulfilled?
What creates the suspense in "Click Clack the Rattlebag."
What is the dark setting and the boy's strange behavior?
In "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass," Mr. Gore justifies killing Demby this way.
What is "to make an example of Demby and maintain order"?
This represents the voice of reason and moderation in the play.
Who is the Chorus?
In "Fahrenheit 451," this symbolizes the impersonal and inhuman reality of government control.
What is the Mechanical Hound?
Douglass's fight with Covey changes him in this way.
What is "it restores his sense of human dignity"?
Early in Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Lottery’ the village appears to be this way.
What is ordinary?
Mildred's primary form of entertainment in "Fahrenheit 451."
What is watching interactive wall-sized television screens?
When Creon learns of Antigone's burial of Polynices, he responds this way.
What is "he sentences her to death despite her being his niece"?
Learning to read represents this for Frederick Douglass in his narrative.
What is the pathway to freedom and human dignity?
The group of people Montag meets outside the city at the end of "Fahrenheit 451."
Who are former professors and intellectuals who memorize books?
In "The Tell-Tale Heart," Poe builds tension through the narrator's obsession with this specific part of the old man.
What is the old man's eye?
The idea that is questioned in "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas."
What is the cost of utopian happiness?
The main moral conflict in "Antigone" is between these two types of law.
What is religious law and civil law?
In "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," the source of the city's happiness and prosperity is this.
What is the suffering of one child?
In "The Night I Won the Right to the Streets of Memphis," Richard Wright's mother forces him to do this.
What is fight the boys who are bullying him?
Douglass strengthens his argument by pointing out the contradiction between America's celebration of freedom and this reality.
What is the continued existence of slavery?
A theme in Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi."
What is environmental destruction?