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Life
Short Stories
Literary Elements
100
September 11, 1862 Greensboro, North Carolina
What is O. Henry's birthday?
100
This story tells the tale of two friends; one a burglar, the other a cop
What is "After Twenty Years?"
100
In The Gift of the Magi “shining like a falling stream of brown hair”
What is a simile?
200
O. Henry went to jail for this
What is bank robbery?
200
This story consists of a naughty little boy and his kidnappers
What is "The Ransom of Red Chief?"
200
In The Gift of the Magi "stopped to catch her breath"
What is an idiom?
300
The fatal illness which his wife had
What is tuberculosis?
300
In “After Twenty Years” Jimmy was one of these
What is a cop?
300
In The Gift of the Magi “Jim and the [watch] chain both had quietness and value”
What is personification?
400
O. Henry received this from his aunt Lina
What is an education?
400
In this story a woman claims she will die as soon as the ivy vine has lost its leaves
What is "The Last Leaf?"
400
The element that O. Henry became known for at the end of his stories
What is situational irony?
500
The Central American country which O’Henry fled to
What is Honduras?
500
In "The Green Door" Rudolf goes on an adventure looking for this
What is a door?
500
In The Gift of the Magi, the comparison of Della and Jim to the magi
What is an analogy?