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12 ANGRY MEN LITERARY ELEMENTS
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This is the attitude of a writer toward a subject or audience.

What is tone?

100

This is the feeling a piece of literature creates in a reader.

What is mood?

100
The timing of the old man's action raises reasonable doubt because ___________________.
What is the actions he testified to doing that night would have taken much longer that he claimed it took?
100

According to the jury, this was the defendant's motive for murder.

What is his father had beaten him since he was young and the defendant snapped? abuse

100
The heat of the courtroom foreshadows this.
What is the heated deliberation the jurors will have about the case?
200

This is the action that makes up the story.

What is plot?

200
This is the time and place of the action of a literary work.
What is the setting?
200
Three ways to build suspense are ____________.
What are Storm, new or unfamiliar place, disappearances, monster/madman, mysterious relationships, ghosts/paranormal, rumors/legends, mysterious/creepy location, isolation, unexplained events
200

This is why Juror 3 seems intent on finding the defendant guilty.

What is he had a bad relationship with his own son. His son had hit him, then run away several years earlier?

ACT 1 `Make a man out of you``

200
The small jury room is a symbol for this.
What is the smallness of some of the jurors minds?
300

This is a person, place, thing, or idea that represents itself as well as something else.

What is a symbol?

300

This is an intense feeling that an audience experiences while waiting for the outcome of events in a literary work.

What is suspense?

300
The knife was first raised reasonable doubt because ______.
What is Juror 8 had purchased one just like it at a shop near where the defendant lived?
300
This is the problem with a hung jury.
What is a guilty man could go free?
300
The juror not having names represents this theme.
What is jurors are supposed to remain anonymous?
400

This is the main character in a literary work.

What is the protagonist?

400

This is a type of conflict that can be witnessed.

What is external conflict?

400
Juror 8 discredited the "I'll kill you" testimony by _______.
What is by pointing out that everyone says it but doesn't mean it. Also he reminds the jurors that the el train would have been too loud to hear it.
400

This was why some of the jurors thought the defendant's alibi was weak.

What is he said he went to the movies, but he could not remember what movie he saw?

400
The two jurors playing tic-tac-toe while the other jurors discussed the evidence is an example of this.
What is irony?
500

The is the message in a literary work.

What is theme?

500

This is a type of conflict that occurs within a character and usually involves a decision.

What is internal conflict?

500

The testimony of the woman across the street raises reasonable doubt because ____________.

What is Juror 6 points out that she wore pretty thick glasses and would not have worn her glasses to be or put them on to casually look outside. Also, she would not have had time to put on her glasses and witness the murder?

500

This is why Juror 8 voted not guilty on the first vote.

What is he was not comfortable sentencing a young man to death without discussing the evidence?

500

These are three characteristics of Gothic Literature.

What is set in medieval times, ghosts, spirits, vampires, blood, pain, death, dark, mysterious, evil tone, supernatural entities, cruelty, dark castles, palaces, chambers, mysterious appearances and disappearances, aberrant psychological states, haunted places, isolated setting/isolation, supernatural or paranormal activities, macabre, contempt for religion, last minute twist, character double/doppelganger