This PLOT TERM explains Morris' throwing the paw in the fire and urging Mr. White not to use it, Mr. White's first wish, and Mrs. White's begging her husband to wish again.
What is RISING ACTION?
100
The sequence of related events in a story.
What is PLOT?
100
These circumstances create the eerie, ominous, sinister MOOD of the story in the EXPOSITION.
What does the cold, rainy, stormy weather outside create?
200
The part of the plot that introduces the setting, main characters, background information, and often the main conflict.
What is the EXPOSITION of a story?
200
This character says, "He wanted to show that fate ruled people's lives, and that those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow."
Who is SERGEANT-MAJOR MORRIS?
200
This PLOT TERM explains the part of the story at the end when Mr. White looks out the door and sees that, indeed, no one is there.
What is the RESOLUTION of the conflict?
200
The contrast between what one expects to happen and what actually happens in the story.
What is the SITUATIONAL IRONY?
200
The reason Morris grows pale when asked about his third wish on the monkey's paw.
What is that the wish's outcome was horrible, terrifying, and terrible?
300
The literary term that best explains the fact that "The Monkey's Paw" takes place in the Whites' house in England around 1900.
What is the SETTING of "The Monkey's Paw?"
300
This character begs, "Go and get it.... Get it quickly, and wish--Oh, my boy, my boy! ...Bring him back!"
Who is MRS. WHITE?
300
The SECOND WISH Mr. White utters.
During which wish does Mr. White ask for his son, Herbert, to come back from the dead?
300
The author's hinting of a major event to come with subtle and often symbolic clues in the story.
What is FORESHADOWING?
300
To express sympathy or sorror
condole
400
The CLIMAX of "The Monkey's Paw."
What PLOT TERM explains the point when Mr. White is scrambling desperately for the paw to make his final wish?
400
This character uses VERBAL IRONY repeatedly because he does not really take the paw or the old army major's stories seriously.
Who is HERBERT WHITE?
400
The amount of money the man from Maw & Meggins bring in compensation for Herbert's death.
What is two hundred pounds (200 lb.)?
400
An example would be, "Why, we're going to be rich, and famous, and happy. Wish to be an emperor..."
What is VERBAL IRONY?
400
tend to believe too readily
credulity
500
During this wish Mr. White, the reader can only infer, wishes his son dead again.
What happens during the THIRD WISH?
500
This character says, "You didn't see his body. I could only recognize him by his clothing."
Who is HERBERT WHITE?
500
The way Herbert died, one must infer.
What is being "caught in the machinery" and torn apart at his factory job?
500
The following are all examples:
-the loud crash at the piano at the time of the first wish
-the paw squirming in Mr. White's hand while wishing
-the wind getting high and wild outside that first night
-Herbert's seeing simian faces in the fire that first night
What is FORESHADOWING?
(All indicate the terrible consequences of the first wish.)