Characters
Who are the two main characters in "House Taken Over"?
Who are Irene and the narrator?
What type of house do the siblings live in?
What is a large, old family estate?
What causes the siblings to abandon the house entirely?
What is the presence of "unknown entities" taking over the last part of the house?
What is the term that helps give the reader a better understanding of text through vivid images?
What is Imagery?
What is the city that the story is set in?
What is Bueno Aires?
What is Irene’s favorite pastime?
What is knitting?
Which part of the house is first "taken over"?
What is the back section?
How do the siblings secure their safety from the unknown forces?
What is by locking doors to isolate themselves from the taken-over areas?
This literary element is the overall feeling the reader gets from a story, such as eerie or suspenseful.
What is modd?
In what year was "House Taken Over" first published?
What is 1946?
How does the narrator spend most of his time?
What is reading?
How do the siblings react when a part of the house is "taken over"?
What is calmly moving to the other part of the house?
What detail suggests that the siblings might be imagining the intruders?
What is the lack of any direct description or evidence of the intruders?
This term describes the author’s choice of words that affect the tone of a story.
What is Diction?
Who wrote "House Taken Over"?
Who is Julio Cortázar?
What do the siblings depend on financially?
What is their family inheritance?
What do the locked doors in the house symbolize?
What is fear and denial of the unknown?
What activity do the siblings abandon after the back section is taken over?
What is cleaning the house?
What term describes how the author puts words together with punctuation?
What is Syntax?
What country is Cortázar from?
What is Argentina?
Why do the siblings never consider moving out of the house?
What is their attachment to family tradition and their passive personalities?
What ultimately happens to the house?
What is it being abandoned by the siblings?
How does the story end?
What is the siblings throwing away the house keys and leaving forever?
The type of writing where magical or supernatural elements appear in a realistic setting, as seen in “House Taken Over.”
What is Magical Realism?
What is one event that happened before the story was published.
What is
- The Great Depression
- World War II
- Revolution of 1943?