Short Stories
The title of the short story with the car accident.
What is "Entwined?"
Point of view using he/she/they pronouns but only tells one character's perspective.
What is third person-limited?
The narrator telling his/her own story is this kind of POV.
What is 1st person?
Conversation in writing is called this.
What is dialogue?
Mary Maloney uses this to kill her husband.
What is a frozen leg of lamb?
A conflict inside of yourself.
What is internal?
This symbolizes Doodle.
What is the scarlet ibis?
The name of the formatting we use for formal writing. (3 letters)
What is MLA?
The plot twist in "Entwined."
What is the person who was killed was a serial killer?
OR
What is the son pushed his father in front of the car?
The emotional atmosphere created for the reader.
What is mood?
The reader knowing Mary killed her husband while the detectives do not is this kind of irony.
What is dramatic?
Can be considered the letdown of the story's events.
What is the falling action?
We read this many fictional short stories this quarter.
What is 4?
The title of the story where the princess sends her lover to a door.
What is "The Lady, or the Tiger?"?
Hints and clues in a text.
What is foreshadowing?
Identify a conflict in one of the short stories we read this quarter. Include what kind of conflict it is.
Answers will vary.
Sometimes contains the solution to the conflict.
What is the resolution?
The contest-winning personal narratives were from this publication.
What is the NY Times?
The narrator's name in "The Scarlet Ibis."
What is he is unnamed? (He is never named.)
Point of view where the narrator is "all-knowing."
What is third person omniscient?
Write a possible theme statement for one of the short stories we read this quarter.
(Various answers.)
The exposition includes these 3 things.
What is characters, setting, and needed background information/conflict development?
The name of our vocab book.
What is Sadlier?