literary devices
The literary device used when the Landlady tells Billy they have the whole house to themselves.
What is foreshadowing?
Billy is ___years old in the movie vs _____in the short story
What is 18 in the movie vs 17 in the short story?
Billy is immediately suspicious of the landlady when she greets him at the door in the short story (True or False)
What is false?
This is something just out of someone's reach.
What is tantalizing?
This is the setting (city and country) where "The Landlady" takes place
What is the house in Bath, England
This is about how old the landlady is.
How old is mid 40s to fifties?
The dachshund is "hard and cold" which is this type of literary device.
What is imagery?
This character replaces the porter in the film.
What is a priest?
This is how Billy first describes the landlady.
What is kind, warm, welcoming, generous, sweet and a little dotty?
This is what it means to come from a person (smell).
What is emanate?
This is the first event of the short story.
What is Billy exiting the train and speaking with the porter in Bath?
This is what Billy think when he sees the names in the guestbook.
What is they are familiar?
The laced tea symbolizes this.
What is Billy's imminent death?
In the short story, we know exactly what happens to Billy (True or false)
What is false?
what does billy look like? two adjectives
Billy is tall, handsome and young.
This is what a facade
What is the front of the building or the outside of something?
When Billy signs the guest book and recognizes the only two names in this book, this is an example of this element of the plot.
What is an event or rising action
This is what Billy thinks the tea tastes like.
What is "bitter almonds"?
The landlady is compared to a jack-in-the-box because of this reason.
What is quick, ready and creepy?
Time has stopped is mentioned in the film at this point.
What is the clock on the second floor of the landlady's house stopped working?
What happned to the landlady's son?
Trick question! Billy hypothesizes that she might have lost a son in the war
This is the type of hat Billy wore.
What is a trilby hat?
This is the climax or most exciting/suspenseful part of "The Landlady"
What is when the landlady tells Billy he is her only guest.
This is the name of the landlady's dog.
What is Basil?
The flowers, nice furniture, and pets entice Billy think this.
They are a good sign and he should stay there.
The film visualizes Billy's liking of briskness (quickness) by this.
What is the camera focusing on the Bed and Breakfast sign?
The importance of the Porter/priest is this.
Who is the only person Billy meets during the story.
This is the name of the plate that the tea cup is sits on.
What is a saucer?
We can infer this happens to Billy.
What is being preserved with taxidermy?
The landlady says, "There wasn’t a blemish on his [Mr. Temple's] body.” She then compares his body to this.
What is a baby?