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Tell-Tale Heart
Randsom of Red Chief
Raymond's Run
Flowers for Algernon
Elements of Literature
100
his eye
What is it that bothered the narrator about the man?
100
Summit, Alabama
Where do Bill and Sam decide to do their kidnapping?
100
running
What is Squeaky really good at?
100
Charlie Gordon
What is the main character's name?
100
dialect
a way of speaking that's characteristic of a particular place or group of people
200
a vulture
What animal was it the narrator compared the man's eye to?
200
$2000
What is the amount Bill and Sam ask for ransom?
200
May Day race
What is the event the girls are competing in?
200
improve his intelligence
Why does Charlie undergo surgery?
200
when reality contadicts what we expect
What is irony?
300
under the flooring
Where did the narrator dispose of the old man's corpse?
300
camping
What does Johnny compare the kidnapping experience to?
300
Hazel Elizabeth Deborah Parker
What is Squeaky's real name?
300
Algernon
What is the name of the mouse the procedure was done on first?
300
a reference to something in current events, on TV, in history, in literature, and so on
What is allusion?
400
a watch enveloped in cotton
What does the narrator compare the sound of the old man's heart beating to?
400
banker
What is Johnny's father's profession?
400
Harlem
Where does the story take place?
400
Miss Kinnian
What is the name of the teacher who works with Charlie?
400
dramatic irony
What is Charlie believing Joe and Frank are his friends an example of?
500
the old man's heart beating
What the narrator thinks he hears as the narrator speaks to the police?
500
situational irony
What is a kidnapper paying a ransom to return the child he kidnapped called?
500
Jack and the Beanstalk
What allusion does Squeaky make to Mr. Pearson?
500
rabbit foot
What does Charlie keep for good luck?
500
a brief lesson about life
What is a moral, or what is at the end of a folk tale?