The Tell-Tale Heart
The Lottery
The Monkey's Paw
Foreshadowing
Plot
100

The narrator wants the reader to know that he is, 100%, definitely, absolutely, this.

El narrador quiere que el lector sepa que él es, al 100 %, sin lugar a dudas, absolutamente, esto.

Sane.

100
Villagers give pebbles to this character to highlight how absolutely everyone participates in the violent lottery.

Little Davy

Tessie's son

Victim's son

100

This is the reason Mr. White did not want to wish his son back to life.

He was scared of how he would look.

100
(The Tell-Tale Heart)

The narrator claiming to be able to hear heaven and hell foreshadows this sound at the end of the story.

The heart.
100

This is the most exciting moment of the story that the tension has been building to.

Climax.

200

This scavenging bird is what the narrator compares the old man's eye to.

Vulture

200

This is what Tessie declares the lottery is only after she's been chosen.

Unfair.

200

Sargent-Major Morris just returned from this foreign country where he found the Monkey's Paw.

India.

200

(Monkey's Paw)

Herbert White saying that he bets he will never see the money foreshadows this event.

His death.

200

This is the final event of the story.

Resolution.

300

When you can't trust the person telling the story, such is in The Tell-Tale Heart

Unreliable Narrator

300

This is the reason why the town holds the lottery every year.

Because they always have.

300

The paw is described as curling like this animal to show its deceptive nature.

A snake.

300
(The Lottery)

Boys are seen doing this in the beginning of the story to foreshadow the lottery's method of murder.

Collecting the best stones.

300

This is the event that completely changes where the story is going.

Turning Point.

400

The narrator recognizes the sound of terror the old man makes one night for this reason.

It's the same he's heard many nights.

400

Old Man Warner represents the fear of this one-word idea as seen in his old man rant.

Change

400
"The author is trying to say that asking for too much when you have everything has consequences" is an example of this ELA concept for The Monkey's Paw.

Theme

400

(The Monkey's Paw)

This is how we knew the stranger was going to give the Whites some bad news.

He was nervous. 

He kept almost entering then backing away from the White's door.

400

This forms the backbone of every Plot and 'holds it up'

Conflict.

500

The narrator uses this word to describe his actions.

(Multiple correct answers)

Proud

Wise

Careful

500
This is the saying the villagers have which shows the original purpose for the Lottery.

Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.

500

We can tell a lot about Mr. White based on his favorite kinds of chess moves, which are

Risky

500

Sometimes foreshadowing is vague, sometimes it is

Definite / Definitive

500

The inciting incident may be the first big decision made, but this happens even before that to set the scene.

Exposition