Plot & Characters
The name of the boy at the center of the story.
What is Paul?
The one word the house keeps whispering throughout the story.
What is money?
Term for when an object represents something beyond its literal meaning.
What is a symbol?
The narrative point of view Lawrence uses in this story.
What is third-person omniscient?
The date of the AP Lit Test
What is May 6?
Paul's relationship to Oscar Cresswell.
What is nephew?
The emotion Paul's mother is incapable of showing her children, which sets the whole tragedy in motion.
What is love?
Term for a story where characters and events stand for abstract ideas — like an extended metaphor with a moral.
What is allegory?
The literary device used when the house is described as 'whispering.'
What is personification?
Number of points OUR GOAT LEBRONNN JAMESSS scored last night
What is 25 points?
Paul's relationship to Oscar Cresswell.
What is nephew?
The one-word quality Paul's mother believes she lacks, which she says is the cause of all her problems.
What is luck?
The rocking horse in the story symbolizes Paul's pursuit of this — the same thing his mother is obsessed with.
What is money (or luck)?
The overall tone of the story — think dark, unsettling, doomed.
What is ominous (or foreboding)?
Lawrence's first name — not D.H., his actual first name.
What is David?
The name of the horse Paul correctly predicts will win the Derby right before he dies.
What is Malabar?
Paul gives his mother a secret gift of money, but her desire for it does this — gets better or gets worse?
What is worse?
Fantasy uses impossible or supernatural elements to reveal truths about this
What is reality?
Lawrence opens with 'There was a woman...' — this mirrors the style of what kind of traditional story?
What is a fairy tale?
Person who's birthday is on next Tuesday (5/5)?
Hint: someone in our group
Who is Azam?
What Paul does on his rocking horse to find winners — described in the story as going to a 'place.'
What is ride (or rock)?
The outcome at the end of the story for Paul — in one word.
What is death?
Authors use symbols because stating a theme directly would lose this quality in the reader.
What is impact (or emotional effect)?
The literary term for the cruel irony that Paul dies right as his mother finally gets the money she wanted.
What is tragic irony?
Name the three people left currently playing Senior Assassin
Who is Savannah, Kassidy, and Ethan Azucar?