Story of an Hour
What does the open window symbolize?
Freedom
window symbolize? FreedomWhat event does Bartolomé try to use to save himself?
Solar Eclipse
What crosses the school grounds?
An ancestral path
What do the children collect?
Stones
What is a story’s message about life or people called?
Theme
What season represents Louise’s imagined new life?
Spring
What group does Bartolomé underestimate?
The Maya
What position does Michael Obi hold?
Headmaster
What object symbolizes the village’s old tradition?
The Black Box
What device gives hints about what will happen later?
Foreshadowing
What feeling does Louise begin to experience after her initial grief?
Freedom
Bartolomé wrongly assumes his culture’s knowledge is what?
Superior
What trait becomes a weakness for Obi?
Ambition
What character protests only after her family is selected?
Tessie Hutchinson
What do we call a conclusion based on textual clues?
Inference
What type of irony occurs when the doctors misunderstand Louise’s death?
Dramatic
What Trait/flaw causes Bartolomé to underestimate the Maya? His own ________
Arrogance
Obi values what idea more than respecting the villagers’ beliefs?
Progress
What force causes uneasy villagers to participate anyway?
Conformity/peer pressure
Type of irony where A character says one thing but means the opposite
Verbal
How does Louise Husband treat/feel about his wife?
He loves her shows nothing but kindness
What type of irony results from the Maya already knowing about the eclipse?
Situational
Obi rejects tradition without first doing what?
Understanding it
The villagers continue the lottery without doing what?
Questioning it
Dead Men’s Path and The Lottery show opposite dangers involving what?
Tradition