Lamb to the Slaughter
The real reason Mary went to the grocery store. Sam the grocer may think she just wanted peas and potatoes, but really, she was creating this.
What is an alibi?
This is how Rainsford feels about animals at the beginning of the story.
He thinks they have no feelings.
The narrator tells the story, depicting this type of point of view.
What is first person point of view?
In "The Necklace", the reader is only exposed to Mathilde's point of view or this
What is third-person limited point of view?
How does the girl with the orange bow feel about the bag boy dropping her mayonnaise?
She finds his awkwardness appealing.
What does Mary's husband tell her at the beginning of the story? What does that lead to?
He tells Mary that he is leaving her, leading Mary to kill him.
Imprudent is a synonym for this word.
It is imprudent to drive when the roads are not cleared of snow.
What is unwise?
When the narrator forces Doodle to touch his coffin, this character trait is revealed about him.
What is cruelty?
Mathilde's primary motivation to borrow her friend's necklace.
What is greed?
Readers may have been surprised to find out what happens to the boy and the girl with this ending to the story.
They go on dates with different people.
Mary prioritizes him in the beginning of the short story
This is the setting for "The Most Dangerous Game." Rainsford and Whitney discuss in the beginning that they are going to the Amazon and Rio. Unfortunately, Rainsford doesn't make it that far on his yacht.
What is the Caribbean Sea, early 1900's
Contrary to what his brother feels about him, Doodle requests one thing from his brother. What is it?
Doodle asks that his brother doesn't leave him alone.
During the exposition of the story, Mathilde is feeling disconsolate with her life. Disconsolate is another word for..
What is discontent?
The title "Checkouts" may refer to cashing out at a grocery store or this.
What is to give up or not act on a feeling
In the end, Mary goes from being a sweet, caring wife to a murderous, deceitful woman. This illustrates that she is this type of character.
What is dynamic character?
What is the greatest source of irony from TMDG?
When Rainsford, the hunter, becomes the hunted.
What are some ways the scarlet ibis and Doodle are similar?
Both have trouble surviving in their environment; both are isolated and alone at the time of their deaths.
At the end of "The Necklace" when the reader learns Mathilde replaced a crystal necklace with a far more expensive diamond necklace, the author is creating this type of irony.
What is the situational irony?
In "Checkouts" the feelings and thoughts of all characters are revealed, conveying this type of point of view.
What is third-person omniscient?
At the end of the story, the police eat the leg of lamb, a.k.a. the murder weapon. This conveys which type of irony?
What is dramatic irony
"An apprehensive night crawled slowly by like a wounded snake and sleep did not visit Rainsford, although the silence of a dead world was on the jungle." In the quote, this type of figurative language is used to describe the night.
What is personification?
Which event symbolizes Doodle's fate?
Scarlet ibis falls from the bleeding tree and dies.
What is denouement?
How does the bag boy help the girl (without even realizing it!)?