Name That Passage!
In this story, a mysterious visitor offers a couple money if they press a button that will cause a stranger to die.
What is “Button, Button”?
This literary device gives hints about events that will happen later in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
In “Button, Button,” this character presses the button despite the possible consequences.
Who is Norma Lewis?
The repetition of beginning consonant sounds in nearby words.In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” this physical feature of the old man makes the narrator obsessed with him.
What is his pale blue eye?
In “Lamb to the Slaughter,” Mary serves this to the police officers, who unknowingly destroy the murder weapon by eating it.
What is the cooked leg of lamb?
In this story, a wife kills her husband with a frozen leg of lamb.
What is “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
This literary device occurs when the audience knows something a character does not know.
What is dramatic irony?
In “Lamb to the Slaughter,” this character kills her husband after he delivers shocking news.
Who is Mary Maloney?
In “Lamb to the Slaughter,” Mary uses this household item as the murder weapon.
What is a frozen leg of lamb?
In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the narrator eventually reveals the crime because he believes he can hear this beneath the floorboards.
What is the old man's heartbeat?
In this story, a man poisons a bottle of whiskey to punish a suspected thief.
What is “Ruthless”?
This literary device occurs when the outcome is different from what the reader expects.
What is irony?
In “Ruthless,” this character puts poison in a bottle of whiskey to punish a thief.
Who is Judson Webb?
In “Ruthless,” Judson adds this substance to the whiskey to trap the suspected thief.
What is rat poison?
In “Ruthless,” this unexpected event causes Judson to drink the poisoned whiskey himself.
What is Judson's fall, which leaves him dazed and allows Alec to offer him the whiskey?
In this story, a barber must decide whether to kill a captain who is his enemy.
What is “Lather and Nothing Else”?
This literary device uses an object, person, or image to represent a deeper meaning.
What is symbolism?
In “Lather and Nothing Else,” this character struggles with whether to kill Captain Torres while shaving him.
Who is the barber?
In “Button, Button,” this offer creates the central moral dilemma for Norma and Arthur.
What is the offer of money in exchange for pressing the button, which will cause a stranger's death?
In “Button, Button,” this revelation about the person who will die makes the original offer more disturbing.
What is that the person who dies will be someone the button-presser does not know?
In this story, a narrator kills an old man because of his eye and later confesses after imagining a heartbeat.
What is “The Tell-Tale Heart”?
This type of characterization occurs when readers learn about a character through actions, thoughts, and dialogue rather than direct descriptions.
What is characterization?
In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” this character insists on being sane while describing a murder and an imagined heartbeat.
Who is the unnamed narrator?
In “Lather and Nothing Else,” this situation creates tension because the barber has the opportunity to kill the captain but must decide whether to do so.
What is the barber's moral dilemma (internal conflict)?
In “Lather and Nothing Else,” the captain's final words reveal that he already knows this about the barber.
What is that the barber is the man who was supposed to kill him?