Vocabulary
A word that means "a person employed to carry luggage and other loads, especially in a railroad station, airport, or hotel."
What is a porter?
The important characteristic of Dahl's writing style.
The full name of the protagonist.
What is Billy Weaver?
Explain the function of the eye simile.
What is to make Billy feel watched?
The definition of Dramatic Irony.
What is the audience learning something before the characters to generate suspense?
A word that means "(of a person, action, or idea) somewhat mad or eccentric."
What is dotty?
List three Dahl stories/books other than The Landlady.
What are very silly British things?
The way The Landlady kills Billy.
What is cyanide in his tea?
Explain how clothes work in indirect characterization.
What is blah blah clothes are important to who people are?
The spooky simile we've discussed
What is words being "like a large black eye?"
The definition of congenial.
What is "pleasant because of a personality, qualities, or interests that are similar to one's own?
The war Dahl served in.
What is World War II?
The detail about someone other than Billy that The Landlady remembered.
What is someone drinking a lot of tea or someone's skin being soft like a baby's (no blemishes)?
Explain the moment you realized The Landlady was strange and why.
What is spook spook and why?
The character trait of Billy's that leads to his undoing.
What is his Naivety?
The definition of rapacious.
What is aggressively greedy or grasping?
The name of Roald Dahl's James Bond movie.
What is You Only Die Twice?
The name of the dachshund near the fire.
What is Basil?
What Dahl meant when he said ideas should be as childish as possible. If you agree with him. Why or why not.
What is everybody's got a child inside them? Ideas should be simple? Something like that?
Where Dahl wants you to consider horror lurking.
Where is somewhere comfortable where you least expect it?
The definition of facade.
What is "an outward appearance that is maintained to conceal a less pleasant or creditable reality" or "the face of a building, especially the principal front that looks onto a street or open space?"
Dahl's opinion about coming up with ideas.
What is that ideas should be as childish as possible?
Who are Christopher Mulholland and Gregory Temple?
What is this old song and dance by now?
Explain the three main methods we discussed how Dahl built suspense
What is through structure, character, and writing choices?