Vocabulary
The definition of Peril
What is DANGER?
Cold, wet, windy night in a home far away from others.
What is the setting?
This character seems to think everything is funny and encourages the father to wish for 200 pounds
Who is Herbert?
This is the reason the monkey's paw is magical
What is it had a spell put on it by an old fakir or holy man?
The person who says these lines "Do you think I fear the child I have nursed?"
Who is mother?
The definition of grimace
What is a facial expression of disgust?
suspenseful and mysterious
What is the mood?
What kind of person can we infer father is from the way he plays chess?
Father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment...
What is a risk-taker or someone who puts themselves in risky sitations?
Mrs. Leasure's favorite beverage.
What is ______________________
The person who says this line "He has been dead ten days, and besides he—I would not tell you else, but—I could only recognize him by his clothing. If he was too terrible for you to see then, how now?"
Who is the father?
The definition of credulity
What is a tendency to believe things too easily?
This strange and supernatural event that occurs while the father wishes, foreshadows bad things to come from the paw.
What is the paw wiggled or moved in his hand?
A well dressed businessman who seemed ill at ease and was strangely silent at first
This is why the father wishes for 200 pounds
What is because Herbert told him to OR because it was enough to pay the house off?
The person who said these lines: "Well, I don't see the money," "and I bet I never shall."
Who is Herbert?
The definition of compensation
What is money received as a payment?
What mood do you find in the story when the Whites stop speaking to one another after Herbert's death?
What is sad or sorrowful, grief?
How does the father feel about the knocking at the door?
What is he is afraid or what is he thinks IT is going to be a monstrous form of his dead son?
This is how Herbert was killed at work
What is he was "caught in the machinery"?
What the father saw in the fire
What is a monkey/ape-like or simian face?
The definition of avaricious
What is greedy?
What is a most likely theme of the Monkey's Paw
This man was describe as " a visitor from distant parts" with "broad shoulders" who "spoke of wild scenes and doughty deeds; of wars and plagues and strange peoples."
Who is the Seargent Major Morris?
Where The Seargent Major Morris throws the paw
What is THE FIRE?
The following sentence from the Monkey's Paw uses this figure of speech - "Sounds like the Arabian Nights," said Mrs. White, as she rose and began to set the supper.
What is an allusion?