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Elements of Literature
Critical Thinking/Analytical Questions
Authors
Characters
Themes
100
The sequence of events in the story.
What is plot?
100
This question is a question of meaning that has more than one plausible answer based on the text.
What is an interpretive question?
100
Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner came from this region in America.
What is the American South?
100
This character fought in the civil war. It meant nothing to him to steal from the enemy or his own side. He is generally considered to be "amoral."
Who is Abner Snopes?
100
There comes a time when we need to re-evaluate our lives - is a possible them of this story.
What is "Hills Like White Elephants"?
200
When and where the story takes place.
What is setting?
200
This type of question has only one correct answer.
What is a factual question?
200
The author if Hills Like White Elephants.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
200
This character was dressed as a jester and sadly bricked into the wall in the story "The Cask of Amontillado"
Who is Fortunato?
200
The human problem of pride and revenge is a possible theme of this story.
What is "The Cask of Amontillado"?
300
What the story is telling us about life or human nature.
What is theme?
300
This question asks us to judge whether what an author has written is true in light of our own experience, knowledge, and other works we have read.
What is an evaluative question?
300
The author of Barn Burning.
Who is William Faulkner?
300
This conflicted character murders an entire family in the story "A Good Man is Hard to Find".
Who is the Misfit?
300
Loyalty to family vs. faithfulness to that which is morally right is a possible theme of this story.
What is "Barn Burning"?
400
a person, animal, or imaginary creature in a story.
What is character?
400
How many characters are in Hills Like White Elephants? Is this type of question.
What is factual question?
400
The author of The Cask of Amontillado.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
400
This character has a strange affinity for dead bodies in the story "A Rose for Emily".
Who is Emily?
400
Moral ambiguities and what it means to be "good" is a possible theme of this story.
What is "A Good Man is Hard to Find"?
500
The struggle between a character and an opposing force.
What is conflict?
500
Why do the man and woman have different attitudes about what they are discussing? Is this type of question.
What is interpretive question?
500
The author of The Things They Carried.
Who is Tim O'Brien?
500
In the Most Dangerous Game, this character believed hunting was the best sport in the world.
Who is Rainsford?
500
The inability to communicate effectively is a possible theme of this story.
What is "Hills like White Elephants"?