Elements of Fiction
A technique present in the story in which authors hint at what is to happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
Who Tells the fictional tales in the story?
Vera Sappleton
Why was the Monkey's paw created?
created to show that fate rules peoples lives and you alter it at your own peril
What does the black box in The Lottery symbolize?
Tradition
Where did Sergeant Major Morris bring the paw back from?
India
When readers or the audience are aware of things that characters in the story are not aware of.
Dramatic Irony
His health/Ailments
This is what Mr. White and Herbert are doing in the opening of the story.
What is playing chess?
What is ironic about the title The Lottery?
Usually positive, here it means death.
Based on our ability to infer, who won the previous year's Lottery?
Watson family father
The emotion or atmosphere created in the reader by the story.
What is mood?
Vera tells Mrs. Sappleton Framton likely left because he was scared of this.
Spaniel or dog
What symbolic meaning does the monkey’s paw carry?
Fate’s danger / consequences of greed
What early detail in “The Lottery” foreshadows the violent ending?
Kids gathering stones
Receive a Tailor's Bill
The central idea that is revealed through a literary text that often pertains to everyday life.
What is theme?
What literary device is used when Vera tells her Aunt the "Pariah dog" story in The Open Window?
Dramatic Irony
In "The Monkey's Paw", it could be described as gloomy and suspenseful.
What is mood?
What theme does The Lottery suggest by including the violent ending?
Don't blindly follow tradition
What song phrase does Vera claim the youngest brother left singing which adds suspense to they story when the hunters return?
"Bertie, Why do you bound"
What is Situational Irony?
Have expectations then exact opposite occurs
How does the open window itself serve as a symbol?
Gateway between truth and fiction/illusion
A religious person who cast a spell on the monkey's paw.
Fakir
What is the Saying Old Man Warner gives to show that The tradition of the lottery is based on a faulty superstition
Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon
What is the last line of "The open Window" identifying important characterization to Vera and understanding of the story.
"Romance at short notice was her specialty."