The Tell Tale Heart
The Tell Tale Heart is told from this point of view.
What is first person point of view?
This author wrote "Monster".
Who is Walter Dean Meyers?
The name of the villager who “wins” the lottery.
Who is Tessie Hutchinson?
This is the term for the time and place in which a story occurs.
What is the setting?
Examples: He, She, They
What are pronouns?
BANG! BOOM!
What is an onomatopoeia?
He wrote "The Tell Tale Heart".
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
In Monster, this character is the main protagonist who is on trial for murder.
Who is Steve Harmon?
The Author of "The Lottery".
Who is Shirley Jackson?
This term refers to the central struggle between opposing forces in a story.
What is a conflict?
This part of speech names a person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
This literary device compares two unlike things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
The narrator compares the old man's eye to this.
What is a vultures eye?
The excerpt from "Monster" and the Marcellus Williams trial share this theme.
What is prejudice or injustice?
The person who runs the lottery every year.
Who is Mr. Summers?
This is the high point of a story, where the main conflict reaches its most intense moment.
What is a climax?
Example: Curious, Funny, Bright, Tall
What is an adjective?
This literary device gives human traits to non-human things or objects.
What is personification?
This is the emotion that drives the narrator mad after committing the murder.
What is guilt?
"When you’re in court, you sit there and you pay attention. You let the jury know that you think the case is as serious as they do. You don’t turn and wave to any of your friends. It’s all right to acknowledge your mother." says this character.
Who is Kathy O'Brien the attorney?
The shocking tradition that occurs at the end of the lottery.
What is stoning the "winner" to death?
This term describes the underlying message, lesson or main idea that an author conveys through a story.
What is theme?
In the sentence, "The children assembled first, of course," this word is the verb.
What is "assembled"?
In The Lottery, the children gathering stones at the beginning of the story hints at the violent conclusion, using this literary device.
What is foreshadowing?
The narrator’s internal struggle with guilt after committing murder is an example of this type of conflict.
What is an internal conflict?
This is the profession of the woman who makes the comment about hoping the trial lasts a long time.
What is a stenographer?
The point of view from which The Lottery is told.
What is third-person objective?
This is the sequence of events that make up a story, including the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
What is plot?
The word "boisterously" in the following sentence.
"The students walked into the class boisterously after lunch."
What is an adverb?
In Monster, Steve Harmon describes his situation as being “trapped in a cage.” This phrase uses this figurative language device to convey the feeling of being stuck in a hopeless situation.
What is a metaphor?
The narrator insists throughout the story that he is not mad but rather this.
What is clever or sane?
What the prosecutor called Steve.
What is MONSTER?
This literary device is used when the townspeople laugh and joke at the beginning of the story, despite the dark outcome of the lottery.
What is irony?
The characters and setting of a narrative are generally introduced during this part of the plot.
What is the exposition?
The subject in the sentence, "Tessie Hutchinson was in the center of a cleared space by now, and she held her hands out desperately as the villagers moved in on her."
Who is Tessie Hutchinson?
This symbolizes tradition and the unwillingness of the townspeople to change.
What is the shabby old black box?