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Literary Terms
Vocabulary
The Necklace
Hills Like White Elephants
Hemingway
100
an educated guess about something based on facts
What is an inference?
100
a poor person
What is a pauper?
100
the name of the main character
What is Mme. Loisel?
100
the method Hemingway uses to develop the conflict
What is dialogue?
100
country where Hemingway drove an ambulence during WWI?
What is Italy?
200
an imitation of a piece of art with the intention of making fun of it
What is a parody?
200
steep or costly
What is exorbitant?
200
what the main character longs for and dreams for
What are expensive things and riches?
200
the operation the couple are arguing about
What is an abortion?
200
number of wives Hemingway had
What is 4?
300
where someone says one thing and mean another; Jig saying "Nothing's wrong with me. I feel fine" is an example of this
What is verbal irony?
300
admiration or attention
What is adulation?
300
how Mme. Loisel feels at the dance
What is happy, admired, "drunk with pleasure"?
300
"just to let the air in"
What is a euphemism for an abortion?
300
some of Hemingway's favorite sports?
What is boxing, hunting, and fishing?
400
where you expect one thing to happen, but the opposite happens instead
What is situational irony?
400
a range
What is a gamut?
400
the reason the lives of the Loisels were ruined
What is losing the necklace/pride?
400
it symbolizes the temporary nature of their relationship
What is the train station setting?
400
how Hemingway died
What is suicide?
500
where the reader/audience knows something a character does not
What is dramatic irony?
500
options or opportunities for the future
What are prospects?
500
the "twist" of the story; the situational irony
What is the fact that the necklace was made of paste?
500
a phrase or saying that makes sense in one language but not another
What is an idiom?
500
year Hemingway died
What is 1961?